Wheelchair no handicap for Mets fan calendar model Amanda Perla
Twenty-five-year-old Perla, who broke her neck in a car accident seven years ago, was the top vote getter among the 100 or so entries...
‘I am standing out and it feels beautiful’: ‘Raw Beauty Project’ empowers disabled women
When she was 19, Wendy Crawford’s life as a model changed forever, after a car accident left her a quadriplegic. Thirty years later, she’s...
National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month 2014
U.S. Senate Resolution 533 designates September 2014 as National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month.
"...every 48 minutes a person will become paralyzed, underscoring the urgent...
PETITION: Wheelchair Access On Commercial Airlines
Please push the Federal Aviation Association to require airlines to provide designated wheelchair accessible spaces on every commercial aircraft, which will allow passengers to...
Pool Wheelchairs Go Down Teamboat Springs at Disney Water Parks
Walt Disney World ® Water Parks make getting around in a wheelchair even easier. Thanks to mobile wheelchair lifts, Blizzard Beach’s Gondola at the...
Zina Hermez – My book, Not Without God: A Story of Survival has been...
What started out a dream has now become reality. I began writing Not Without God a couple of years ago, and I wrote sporadically...
Stem-cell advances may quell ethics debate
Robert Waddell says he's glad the stem cells that healed him came from "a guy who was 50 years old" and not a human...
A Guide To Spinal Cord Injury
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwbJE0JrMzk
Personal experiences from people who have spinal cord injuries.
Life after a spinal cord injury is filled with the challenge of accepting your injury,...
Stanford engineer invents safe way to transfer energy to medical chips in the body
A wireless system developed by Assistant Professor Ada Poon uses the same power as a cell phone to safely transmit energy to chips the...
IndyCar owner Sam Schmidt chosen to unveil innovative hand, foot-free Corvette
HENDERSON, Nev. – A 1999 IndyCar sits inside Sam Schmidt’s Las Vegas-area home. One day, Schmidt, who is a quadriplegic, hopes to drive it...
