Paralyzed Veterans’ National President will Travel around the Country to Raise Awareness for Veterans with Disabilities
Paralyzed Veterans of America is marking the 66th anniversary of its founding this April by encouraging all Americans to take a stand and commit to helping veterans as part of their life’s mission.
With the theme Building a Nation Fit for Heroes and events across the country, Paralyzed Veterans Awareness Month highlights the unique challenges facing veterans with spinal cord injury/dysfunction. It spotlights the work of Paralyzed Veterans to empower seriously wounded heroes and their families with everything they need to thrive. Continue Reading »
NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — A California man is turning heads and wheels as he makes his way across the country to promote spinal cord research. Continue Reading »
John Morris flew to Dallas last week, but when the 24-year-old quadriplegic tried to come home Sunday, a Frontier pilot ordered him off the plane, saying Morris could not be properly restrained in his seat.
On Monday, neither the Federal Aviation Administration nor Frontier could say what constitutes proper restraint for a passenger with a spinal-cord injury.
Last year on a flight to Chicago, Morris said Frontier staff had the idea to use seat-belt extensions — one belt over his knees, and two holding his chest — to help secure him to his seat. Continue Reading »
A Miami car company will make history this month when its first vehicles begin rolling off the assembly line. Vehicle Production Group’s MV-1 is the first factory-built automobile designed for wheelchair passengers.
The MV-1 can accommodate wheelchairs in the front passenger area and has a built-in access ramp, an extra-wide entry, lots of headroom and strong safety standards. It’s priced lower than conversions, starting at $39,950. Continue Reading »
Published: February 20, 2011 | Category: FeaturedNews
Canadian Morgan Van Breda is cycling from Delhi to Kanyakumari to raise awareness about spinal cord injury, and funds for her own treatment
Thirty two year-old Morgan Van Breda is cycling across India — with her hands. The ambitious young Canadian was only 24 when a soccer post collapsed on her back while she was in Cuba, turning her into a paraplegic.
Now, she is on a 3,900 km, seven-week journey from Agra to Kanyakumari on a handcyle, raising awareness about spinal cord injury, and funds for breakthrough stem cell research that may allow her to walk again. Continue Reading »
Brain controlled driving of real cars: what fun! Autonomos Labs in Germany have used an Emotiv headset and developed a way to drive using thoughts to decide LEFT or RIGHT. Continue Reading »
Published: January 10, 2011 | Category: Information
Determined as she was to explore the Honduras village of Copan, Deborah Sakach learned that her wheelchair was simply not going to work on the village’s cobblestone streets.
Still, recalls Sakach, who spent part of her time in Honduras working with an organization giving away wheelchairs “to people with my condition – polio,” she also discovered on that trip that “it is better to go than stay home, even if you can’t see and do everything.” Continue Reading »
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Especially when it’s a discarded wheelchair.
Tens of thousands of disabled people in developing countries enjoy the dignity of moving about in rehabilitated wheelchairs, thanks to Joni Eareckson Tada.
The minister and disability-rights advocate has touched countless lives with her wheelchair project.
But she might never have had such an impact had it not been for one fateful summer day in 1967.
Just 17, she dived off a raft in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay and fractured her spinal cord, paralyzing herself from the neck down. Continue Reading »
Newswise — The spleen, an organ that helps the body fight infections, might also be a source of the cells that end up doing more harm than good at the site of a spinal cord injury, new research suggests.
Considering the spleen’s role in the after-effects of spinal cord injury could change the way researchers pursue potential treatments for these devastating injuries. Continue Reading »
Newswise — If researchers could determine how to send signals to cells responding to a spinal cord injury, they might be able to stop one type of cell from doing additional damage at the injury site and instead, coax it into helping nerve cells grow. Continue Reading »
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Paralyzed Veterans’ National President will Travel around the Country to Raise Awareness for Veterans with Disabilities
John Morris flew to Dallas last week, but when the 24-year-old quadriplegic tried to come home Sunday, a Frontier pilot ordered him off the plane, saying Morris could not be properly restrained in his seat.
A Miami car company will make history this month when its first vehicles begin rolling off the assembly line. Vehicle Production Group’s MV-1 is the first factory-built automobile designed for wheelchair passengers.
Canadian Morgan Van Breda is cycling from Delhi to Kanyakumari to raise awareness about spinal cord injury, and funds for her own treatment
Determined as she was to explore the Honduras village of Copan, Deborah Sakach learned that her wheelchair was simply not going to work on the village’s cobblestone streets.
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Especially when it’s a discarded wheelchair.