Tag: Wheelchairs
Temperance Crash Victim Defies Long Odds; Gives Thanks As She Strives to Overcome Spinal...
Cortney Hoffman is walking.
In 2002, when she was 16, she rolled her car. She woke up staring at a perfect summer sky, wondering why...
Coalition Calls on Congress to Change Medicare Rule
Mobility equipment manufacturers and dealers are joining with power wheelchair users and doctors to call on Congress to prevent a major access problem for...
Florida Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Week
Darrell Gwynn Foundation Spearheads Florida Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Week to Educate the Community
November 13 - 19 - First-ever week aimed at paralysis...
Back home again
It’s been a roller coaster of emotions for Rusty Begnaud since the swimming pool accident last June that left him a paralyzed. Returning home...
STOP MEDICARE ATROCITY
Medicare is moving fast to take away funding for complex mobility equipment like power wheelchairs.
People rely on this equipment to go to school, take...
Wheelchair funding to be cut
To combat fraud, Medicare reducing reimbursements
There is no question that Keith Copen needs his motorized wheelchair. The 59-year-old is paralyzed from the thighs down...
Man with ALS feels like he’s trapped inside a shell
Dr. Luis Cebrian says he feels like he's trapped inside a shell. "I feel like I'm basically made out of wood or rubber."
Although he...
O.T. “MacGyver” Makes Life Easier With Speedy Tools
University of New Hampshire faculty member Therese Willkomm calls herself “MacGyvette.” But Willkomm doesn't fight crime like the resourceful 1980s television sleuth; rather, she...
Wheelchairs traded for wakeboards
People with disabilities trying a sport that was just about impossible a few years ago
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS (AP) — Two years ago, Vijay Viswanathan severed...
Disabled People ‘Left Behind’ in Emergency Planning
During Hurricane Katrina, Benilda Caixeta, a New Orleans resident with Quadriplegia, tried for two days to seek refuge at the Superdome. Despite repeated phone...
