Tag: Quality Of Life

Not Your Typical Skateboarder

Watch this video to see how Daniel Pelletier skateboards despite being paralyzed from the waist down.

Wheelchair Dance Competion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ9NqyChCA0 Wheelchair dance competition in Europe.

Bridging Barriers Quality of Life Grant Opens Doors

I smile every day here when I learn about how Reeve Foundation Quality of Life grants tangibly change lives. A picture tells a thousand...

Service Dogs

Service dogs do more than just help the visually impaired navigate a crosswalk.

Service Dogs to the Rescue!

Service dogs do more than just help the visually impaired navigate a crosswalk. Someone living with paralysis could use a service dog, typically Labrador...

Wheelchair Recycler gives people mobility back

Getting Camy Stark to Bible class used to be difficult for her parents, Josh and Lori. The 5-year-old from Moore, Okla., has caudal regression...

Michele Lee’s Spinal Cord Injury Patient Story

Michele Lee, 26, is a woman with a good job, an apartment in the city, a talent for painting and an independent, adventurous spirit....

The paralysis buster: Jab and exercise combination could help sufferers regain the use of...

A jab that helps heal damaged spinal cords and eases paralysis is being developed by British scientists. It is hoped that patients such as car...

The scourge of bedsores is being confronted

What do you know about bedsores? They come from too much pressure on your skin in one place for too long. If you are...

Life changing, not life ending

It’s quiet under the water. The roar of the rapids muted. But Peter Chisholm’s heart raced as he fought to grab the loops of his...