Power wheelchairs often have many available features that users can choose from when ordering. Here are some benefits of the elevate and stand features that many leading power wheelchair manufacturers offer on their products. https://youtu.be/811l3qQ7QaA Elevate The elevate feature is…
Brian Propp has been skating since he was a little boy growing up in Saskatchewan, Canada, and skated in many of the world’s biggest arenas over his 15 years in the NHL, but it was his skating on the 3rd floor…
“I like to tell people I started doing stand-up comedy when I finally couldn’t,” jokes Wes Johnson. As a member of the Army National Guard, Wes’s plans to deploy to Afghanistan were altered when he suffered a C5-6 spinal cord…
Different people have their own unique way of coping with difficult times, and for James McQuillan, his method is by focusing and talking about something else. When he was 20 years old, James suffered a spinal cord injury while playing…
Matt Johnson was a fairly active 24-year-old living in the University City section of Philadelphia at the time of his injury on March 28, 2015. He would bike or run about once a week, but he rode his motorcycle almost…
In the United States, there are currently between 240,000 and 337,000 people living with some type of spinal cord injury. These injuries most often lead to a diagnosis of paraplegia (lower limbs affected) or quadriplegia (all four limbs affected). In addition, spinal cord injuries…
At birth, Ali was without oxygen for 2 minutes, and nurses were afraid he would not survive. But he did survive, and throughout his life, he has found ways to keep surviving – keep thriving. Ali was born in…
Avi Golden was an active EMT and paramedic when his life took an unexpected turn. In early June 2007, at 33 years of age, Avi was admitted to Columbia Hospital, in New York, for surgery on an mitral valve prolapse (MVP) repair that…
Most people living with a disability are oftentimes overly familiar with medical imaging – those black and white, stark representations of the interior human body. A clinical snapshot of a diagnosis. A woman named Elizabeth is setting out to change…
“At the end of the day, you are different, but it’s OK,” says Erika Bogan. “Embrace it!” echoes Shannon Chisholm. Both women have been active advocates for people with disabilities since their injuries. Erika was injured in a car accident…