Tag: Wheelchairs
Disabilities on Ice
Daily News reporter Ann Potempa can be reached at 257-4581 - Daily News
Bad legs don't stand in the way of sled hockey athletesBad legs...
Disabilities on Ice
Bad legs don't stand in the way of sled hockey athletes
ON a Friday night, when much of Anchorage was meeting friends for a late-night...
Shooting for the STARZ
Roll! Shoot! Score! By Jill Cueni-Cohen
Ordinary basketball takes on a whole new dimension when it's played by teams in wheelchairs.
"Wheelchair basketball really...
Rehabilitation program challenges people with spinal cord injuries.
Perched 60 feet above the ground and alongside a cliff at Mississippi Palisades State Park, first-time rock climber Joel Irizarry took a quick breather....
JUST LIKE FLOATING IN SPACE
Wheelchair users dive at Monterey aquarium
It was 5:15 p.m. and Steve Lyon was preparing to get vertical for the first time in two weeks.
Zipped...
Spinal cord injury sufferers stay busy with new group
A new spinal cord injury group in Naples is gathering steam, with weekly and monthly events to keep members busy and its first major...
Spinal Injury Psychological And Social Problems
Spinal Cord Injury Can Result In Significant Psychological And Social Problems
Research from the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Otago University, has confirmed...
Promise for the paralyzed
Groundbreaking procedure at Craig Hospital offers hope to those with spinal injuries
ENGLEWOOD - A skid into a tree, a bad fall on an icy...
Just cut em’ off
People can be very friendly and offer great advice. More so than you’d ever imagine if you would only open yourself up a little...
Understanding the Importance of Language
Every day more than thirty people become paralyzed from spinal cord injury (SCI) or disease. SCI generally results in one of two types of...
