Tag: Disabilty
Primolicious – Disability Community
Primolicious is the cozy online gathering place for the DisabilityCommunity where Partners with common interests and challenges connect,share and support one another.
A great place...
University of Pittsburgh Awarded $4.75 Million Grant to Improve Treatment of Spinal Cord Injuries
The U.S. Department of Education’s National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research has awarded a $4.75 million grant to the University of Pittsburgh to...
Disabled Newton mom hoping for a miracle
Five years ago, Danielle Shine became a quadriplegic after a car accident. Now, she hopes to raise money for an experimental stem cell transplant...
Brain or Spinal Injury Linked to Increased Bankruptcy Rates
Newswise — In addition to neurological damage and Disability, survivors of brain or spinal cord injury may face financial disaster, with increased rates of...
Everett has support from Utley, Byrd, Burroughs and others
An ill-fated tackle on Sunday plunged Kevin Everett into a hellish week of loss. Instead of commanding his finely chiseled body, he could do...
Wheelchairs roll, and rock: Spinal injury patients offer help to live life kingsize
New Delhi, August 29:* Nekram Upadhyay is 34, suffers from polio, walks with a crutch, and has won the prestigious Ford Fellowship.
* Dr Tomasz...
Resident says city is balking on wheelchair ramp promise
Pamela Bell has been disabled for more than three years.
When a spinal cord injury eventually made the Jacksonville resident wheelchair bound a year and...
RRTC Web Cast on Pain and Spinal Cord Injury -Monday August 13
The Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Spinal Cord Injury (RRTC on SCI) for a Web cast on Pain and Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)....
Nominate someone for the SCI Hall of Fame! Deadline Aug.15
Nominations for the 2007 Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Hall of Fame are officially open!
Anyone can nominate candidates in any of 14 categories by completing...
Paralympian creates ‘fashion-able’ clothes
Teri Thorson doesn’t think people in wheelchairs should have to choose between fashion and function.
The former Paralympian wheelchair racer is launching her own line...
