Tag: Wheelchairs
In poor countries, spinal injury still means death
LONDON (Reuters) - A 6-year-old Palestinian girl may be about to experience at first hand the gulf between care of spinal injuries in the...
Paralysis victim ‘returned to life’
As he'd done so many times before, Jonah Shea tackled the chilly waters of Cape Cod Bay by running and diving in head first.
The...
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...
Road to Recovery
One warm summer evening, Tamara Mena-Perez lay in her bed gazing at a row of medication bottles on her dresser.
She started getting angry. It...
Injury gives athlete opportunities
Most people might not say a spinal cord injury is a positive event in their lives. Brian Sheridan does.
A life-long athlete who had hoped...
Paralyzed athletes pin hopes on UCI researcher
An Irvine professor studies stem cells to look for a treatment for spinal cord injuries.
The motorcycle roars to life.
From his wheelchair David Bailey watches...
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...
Disabled laud efforts to make intimacy easier
Alan Tholkes expected good-natured ribbing when he shared his new-product idea with colleagues at HealthPostures, the ergonomic-furniture company in Glencoe, Minn., that he co-founded...
To empower, to overcome
Back to Back foundation to hold fundraiser at Jesse's Restaurant on Friday
MAGNOLIA SPRINGS – The Back to Back Foundation, a budding non-profit dedicated to...
