Tag: Disabilty
Smoking
You already know that a spinal cord injury causes an Impairment of the muscles involved in breathing the higher the injury, the greater...
Spirituality
Because spinal cord injury can be a life changing event, your whole way of life - including your spirituality -- is challenged. You may...
Switching to a Power Wheelchair
For many SCI survivors, recapturing independence is your single most significant achievement. You view any concessions to that independence accepting more help, using...
Understanding and Managing Stress
It could be a traffic jam, or a busy airport. It could be at school or on the job. Wherever your look, you can...
Upper-Extremity Pain
For 20 years, Tom had “no aches, no pains, no nothing.” Why was his luck changing now? Maybe his shoulder pain started because his...
Weight Gain
So you gained five pounds in the last year; no big deal. It’s probably not enough for anyone to notice. But think about it:...
You Are How You Feel
One of the first questions out of your doctor's mouth is often something like, "How are you feeling?" More than just a conversation starter,...
HELPING HANDS
Wheelchair basketball is played in accordance with NCAA rules with very few exceptions. These exceptions are:
PLAYER: An individual who, because of permanent, severe leg...
Raising The Bar: New Horizons in Disability Sport
Raising The Bar: New Horizons in Disability Sport - Featuring the work of ten international photographers and thirty international athletes
New York, NY: After its...
Able brothers fritter their time away
Kirk Pfeifle and his brother Eric Pfeifle are men who don't give up, even though they are disabled.
They are men who get up in...
