Tag: Adaptive Sports
Once a College Basketball Player, Paralyzed Athlete Now Curls
Steve Emt was rolling himself up a hill to a pie shop in Falmouth, Massachusetts, when the coach of a wheelchair curling team noticed...
How adaptive ski programs are giving the injured their lives back
IT’S A COBALT-SKY, 13-inch powder day at Tahoe’s Alpine Meadows and Matt Leonard is on the bunny slope. This isn’t exactly where Leonard, a...
UH Study: Wheelchair Rugby Lowers Depression and Stress in Spinal Cord Injury Patients
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Wheelchair rugby is a high-octane team contact sport changing the lives and mental health of the spinal cord injury patients who play it. A...
Accident survivor making a name in wheelchair tennis
In the course of three years, Taylor Graham has accomplished many things: Survived a motorcycle accident, adjusted to a spinal cord injury and a...
Go karts help paralyzed racer find new normal
When he distances himself from the memory, and the wheelchair, Matt Maier is simply racing again. He’s independent and self-assured. His knowledge and experience...
A Paralyzed Florida Surfer Finds His Own ‘Perfect Wave’
For engineer Matt Bellina, of Cocoa Beach, Fla., riding the perfect wave was a group mission.
More than 15 friends gathered on Florida's Cocoa Beach...
Paralyzed veterans empowered with new independence
After serving our country, all veterans come back as our nation’s heroes. But some return with serious injuries and need assistance becoming whole again.
Disabled veterans refuse to let their injuries slow them down
JUPITER, Fla. - If you told Army veteran Donald Thomas he would end up speeding down a mountain one day, he'd tell you that you we're crazy.
