Tag: Wheelchairs
Wheels in motion for new park
After an early-morning downpour, it looked as though the 300 participants in Sunday's 4th annual Rick Hansen Wheels in Motion race might have to...
Backers to push stem cell issue across country
Chris Bell, a Democrat running a longshot campaign for governor of Texas, asserted divine support for turning stem cell research into a major wedge...
Wheels in motion Sunday for spinal cord research
People making a difference in the lives of people with spinal cord injury is the driving force behind the Comox Valley Wheels in Motion...
Twenty years on, Hansen still in motion
Wheelchair athlete famous for global trek is focused now on injury research
Twenty years ago, Rick Hansen was wrapping up his 40,000-kilometre Man in Motion...
MACHANICAL AND ACCESSIBILITY ISSUES
Light Switches and Lighting
* Light switches placed at a height between 3 feet and 3 feet 6 inches; if adjacent...
BATHROOMS
Showers and Bath Tubs
If you can transfer yourself out of your wheelchair, then your existing bathroom may only need...
Access to Recreation
Access to recreation, pool lifts, all terrain wheelchairs, wheel chair ramps, shower chair, beach wheelchairs, standing frame, patient lift, rehabilitation equipment, disability products
Spinal Cord Injury Research Advocate at Keene State College
KEENE, N.H. 4/3/06 - On Wednesday, April 12, Travis Roy, the author of Eleven Seconds: A Story of Tragedy, Courage, and Triumph, will...
Stretching the limits to heal spinal cords
For years, scientists have been trying to make injured spinal cords grow back, with limited success.
Lying awake in bed one night, neurobiologist Douglas H....
ADAPT Kicks Off National Days of Action in Nashville, Tennessee
Hundreds of Disability Rights Activists Blockade Traffic Around the State Capital
Nashville, TN: Nearly sixty people were cited and a half dozen were arrested in...
