Yearly Archives: 2009
‘You’ve got to keep going’
Jill Mason embodies challenges, successes of people living with spinal-cord injuries
One of the annoying things about life with two paralyzed legs is time, Jill...
Understanding Spinal Injury – Complete and Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury
In the evaluation of spinal injuries, they are often classified as complete or incomplete injuries. Traditionally, a complete spinal cord injury meant that there...
Finding the right connection after spinal cord injury
In a major step in spinal cord injury research, scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have demonstrated that regenerating...
Patients With Spinal Cord Injuries Go Sailing
DENVER (CBS4) ― Craig Hospital patients took their rehabilitation outside on Friday for "Hobie Day."
It was a chance for people with spinal cord injuries...
She sings, she dances, all from her wheelchair
Ali Stroker is a ball of energy. It is exhausting just being in the room with her. Ali came by our offices the other...
Athletes raise money for adaptive equipment
BURLINGTON — A team of disabled athletes using hand cycles will ride in the fourth annual Kelly Brush Century Ride on Sept. 12. Team...
Life Rolls On- They Will Surf Again Event July 25th, 2009 Cocoa Beach, Florida
Life Rolls On Foundation's program called "They Will Surf Again" is an adaptive surf program where people with disabilities mostly with spinal cord injuries get the chance to surf.
Paralysis is a Catastrophic Injury
For an injury to be considered catastrophic, it must occur without any warning. It must also disrupt your life is some way, whether by...
Climbing Mountains
K. Eric Larson and a few pals had planned a mountain climbing trip to Mount Rainier when the idea hit him: turn the trip...
Water skiing clinic opens fun of the sports to disabled
"It's all kind of freedom on those skis," said Mark Bugha, 28, from Finleyville in Washington County. "It's special for me because I never...
