Tag: Wheelchairs
Cheerios salutes wheelchair athlete
As head of the University of Pittsburgh's Human Engineering Research Laboratory, Rory Cooper is helping to guide emerging technologies and treatments to improve mobility...
Wheels for Toddlers
CHICAGO (Ivanhoe Newswire) — There are more than 5 million kids living with disabilities in the United States. Many times, their unique physical challenges...
POWER celebrates ten years of helping others
For some people a disability can be devastating and for others it becomes a challenge, but with the help of People on Wheels Encouraging...
Tackling spinal cord injuries
Dr. Ragnarsson is a physiatrist (specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation) and professor and chairman of the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Mount Sinai....
Moving Forward after Spinal Cord Injury DVD
DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Moving Forward after Spinal Cord Injury...
Group protests SRS assistance freeze
A small group of protesters, several of whom were seated in wheelchairs, gathered in 30-degree weather outside the Hays office of Kansas Social and...
MAKING MIRACLES HAPPEN: CHALLENGE CENTER TAKES THE “DIS” OUT OF DISABILITES
(San Diego's East County) — “When I first had my stroke, I couldn’t speak or move my right side. I couldn’t walk,” recalled...
Satisfaction with technological equipment in individuals with tetraplegia following spinal cord injury
OBJECTIVE: To measure the acquisition, use and satisfaction with high technology equipment by spinal cord injured tetraplegic subjects. DESIGN AND SETTING: A questionnaire was...
A spine-tingling new frontier
One Sydney scientist likens it to the lunar mission; a potentially great but risky step forward. For some people with spinal cord injury -...
A wheel hands-on experience
IT’S been two minutes and I’ve already got a nasty sweat up.
The carpet looked easy enough, but even my slight frame caused the wheelchair...
