Sports give people a healthy avenue to get out aggressions and frustrations, regardless of whether or not you have a disability. https://youtu.be/5GjCwh6cCV8 For those with a disability, sports “really allows you to push your body to a limit that you’ve never thought of,” explains…
Antonio, a quadriplegic since the age of 19, got into wheelchair rugby four years after his injury after a few guys introduced him to the sport. https://youtu.be/CtH-2zVOQ9k “It was great, it was a great sport,” he explains. “Strengthened me up,…
For children with a spinal cord injury, it’s important to have access to sports. https://youtu.be/wh5LdGoTGos “It allows them to get back and doing the types of activities that many of them were doing before they got hurt,” explains Sarah Klaas,…
Brothers Kyle and Brent Pease embody the true meaning of teamwork. Together they have completed 44 endurance races in just 4 years, and all those have been accomplished with Brent pushing Kyle in a wheelchair over each finish line. Kyle…
Jack and Tricia are wheelchair-users who had polio at a very young age. Jack had it since he was 1 years old and Tricia had hers when she was 2 years old. https://youtu.be/Pm2CH9-jUUw “I just wish that everybody will just…
“My twin sister and I were born prematurely. I was the weaker out of the two of us…It’s ironic then that I was the one who came out of it unscathed and Jenny went on to live with cerebral palsy.”…
“It’s very easy to deny your own needs. It’s very easy to put the other person’s needs first.” https://youtu.be/ZEnquuMhjAA Robin Dorman is a clinical health psychologist. Caregivers are often the first to sacrifice their health and emotional needs, and are usually…
On October 14, 2015, Bruce Cook made history as the first paraplegic to land a backflip in a dirt bike at NitroCircus. (Jump to 1:20) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce8b3J_whd8 A life with paralysis Bruce wasn’t able to complete the rotation on an attempt on…
Gina Schuh has helped people improve their dating profiles and has spoken at disability support groups on dating. She tackles some of the big questions surrounding creating an online dating profile. “I feel the need to have a disclaimer: These tips aren’t…
“I went to my family and I said ‘I want to be a human being and they chose to let me be a part of our family again.” https://youtu.be/HUu6ZqSBfuA Joe, a paraplegic, didn’t always have the best relationships with his…