All posts in: Exercise

Betsy Bailey · Exercise · Health · Rehabilitation Programs · Wheel:Life · Wheelchair

Nov 19

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How Adaptive Fitness is Helping Joanna Bonilla Fight for Recovery

Editor’s Note:  Fitness enthusiast Joanna Bonilla hadn’t been feeling her best when one day, she began experiencing back pain and weakness in her legs. Her mother took her to the emergency room, but by the time the doctors had finished routine ...

Betsy Bailey · Exercise · Health · Spinal Cord Injury · Wheel:Life · Wheelchair Sports

Nov 13

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One Adaptive Athlete’s Story on How Perseverance Saved His Life

Editor’s Note:  From dancing to triathlons, 31-year-old Vincenzo Tufano is constantly on the move. This wasn’t always the case, though. After falling in 2010 due to muscular dystrophy, he lost nearly all mobility leaving him in an electric ...

Betsy Bailey · Advocacy · Exercise · Health · Transverse Myelitis · Wheelchair

Nov 05

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Clay Garner’s Fight to Beat Transverse Myelitis

Editor’s Note:  Clay Garner, a successful entrepreneur and businessman, was nearing retirement when nagging lower back pain eventually led to hip replacement surgery. A few weeks prior to his scheduled operation, groin pain and troubles urinating ...

Betsy Bailey · Advocacy · Exercise · Special Events · Wheel:Life · Wheelchair Sports

Nov 02

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5 Adaptive and Advocacy Events You Shouldn’t Miss This November

This November boasts many reasons and ways to get active. By exercising our bodies, we can burn off those Halloween candy calories and a little extra in preparation for all of the upcoming holiday feasts. But this month also provides opportunities ...

Betsy Bailey · Advocacy · Comfort Ambassadors · Exercise · Health · Special Events · Wheel:Life · Wheelchair

Oct 22

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Comfort Conversations: Top 10 Instances of Discrimination Against People With Disabilities

People with disabilities make up the nation’s largest minority with nearly 20% of the US population living with some type of disability. Unlike racial or ethnic groups, anyone can become part of the disability community at any time. ...

Betsy Bailey · Advocacy · Exercise · Health · Special Events · Wheelchair Sports

Oct 11

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SAS: Campaigning for the Support of Adaptive Sports

Editor’s Note: Connie Cardenas grew up running, and even into early adulthood, her life revolved around the sport. In her early 20s, she set out to qualify for the Boston Marathon but soon after started experiencing hip pain. Assuming her injury ...

Betsy Bailey · Exercise · Health

Sep 24

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Celebrate World Ostomy Day by Running, Walking, or Rolling for Resilience

Disability Awareness month is coming up and with so many great events on the calendar, now is the time to start planning out your October. If you’re part of the ostomy and continent diversion community or would like to support awareness, Run for ...

Betsy Bailey · Exercise · Special Events · Wheel:Life · Wheelchair · Youth Programs

Aug 20

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Edna Serrano is a Roll Model for Strong Latina Women

Below, Edna Serrano of the Rollettes shares her story of growing up with a disability and overcoming obstacles to lead the way for other young women who roll. Edna Serrano: A Survivor From the Beginning She was only weeks old when Edna Serrano ...

Monica Manley · Comfort Ambassadors · Exercise · Health · Wheel:Life · Wheelchair · Wheelchair Sports · Youth Programs

Jun 04

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Comfort Conversations: Anyone Can Dance

Join us every other month for Comfort Conversations, a discussion series led by our Ambassadors who share their thoughts on issues affecting wheelchair users worldwide. Today’s topic is, Anyone Can Dance, written by Comfort Medical and Wheel:Life ...

Monica Manley · Community Partners · Exercise · Health · Wheelchair Sports

Jun 01

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The Benefits of Your Child Getting Active with Adaptive Bike Riding

Parents of children living with disabilities:  Take a minute to travel back in time to when you first learned to ride a bike. Feel the wind in your hair, your heart racing, and the exhilaration of experiencing freedom while pedaling down the street ...

Monica Manley · Exercise · Wheel:Life · Wheelchair · Wheelchair Sports

Mar 01

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Zebreda Dunham Powers Through Challenges on the Pitch and in Life

Editor’s Note:  Born with arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, Zebreda Dunham grew up in Maryland under the care of her parents. At the age of 24, she decided it was time to venture out on her own and start living the life she had always imagined ...

Monica Manley · Exercise · Health · Wheel:Life · Wheelchair · Wheelchair Sports

Feb 21

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Adaptive Aerial Yoga Allows Wheelchair Users to Fly

  Editor’s Note: Texas native Sara Schaffer has been practicing physical therapy for over a quarter of a century and has worked in both the neurological and orthopedic fields. Also a long time yoga practitioner, she has trained under some of ...

Monica Manley · Exercise · Wheel:Life · Wheelchair · Wheelchair Sports

Jan 12

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5 Extreme Activities to Add to Your Bucket List

Have you already tried all of the typical adaptive sports available in your area, but haven’t yet found one that holds your interest and quenches your thirst for adventure? Then it’s time for you to move off the beaten path, and luckily, a ...

Monica Manley · Exercise · Spinal Cord Injury · Wheel:Life · Wheelchair · Wheelchair Sports

Dec 07

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Making Adaptive Climbing More Accessible with Arthur Torrey

Editor’s Note: When a tree-cutting accident in 2010 led to broken bones, a separated shoulder, and a punctured aorta, it seemed that Arthur Torrey had miraculously escaped any spinal cord damage. However, after undergoing emergency surgery to ...

Monica Manley · Exercise · Health · Wheel:Life · Wheelchair

Nov 02

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Building Strength and Confidence with Handi Capable Fitness

Editor’s Note: A botched hernia operation during infancy left James Norris with cerebral palsy. Though he was able to get around with a walker throughout the early years of his life, the time constraints of switching classes in high school ...

Monica Manley · Exercise · Health · Wheel:Life · Wheelchair · Wheelchair Sports

Oct 03

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Smooth Sailing with David Gaston

Editor’s Note:  A Texas coast native, David Gaston has been in and around the water his whole life. Obtaining his scuba certification at the age of 13 and then working as a commercial diver in the oil fields just out of high school, Gaston turned ...

Monica Manley · Exercise · Special Events · Wheel:Life · Wheelchair · Wheelchair Sports · Youth Programs

Sep 26

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Wheelchair Dancers Organization Says Everybody Can Dance!

When life-long dancer Beverly Weurding was diagnosed with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy at the age of 55, she thought her days of doing the rumba and cha-cha would soon be over. Not ready to put away her dancing shoes, she was determined to find a ...

Monica Manley · Exercise · Health · Spinal Cord Injury · Wheel:Life

Sep 19

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Pursuing Health and Happiness with Malaise Wheelchair Fitness

Editor’s Note: Justin Malaise grew up in small-town Wisconsin as a star three-sport high school athlete. One month after graduation, a car accident left him in a wheelchair forcing him to forgo his plans of playing college ball. After spending the ...

Monica Manley · Accessible Travel · Exercise · Wheel:Life · Wheelchair

Feb 27

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Accessible Hiking, Camping and Fishing? WOW!  

Editor’s Note: Wilderness on Wheels (WOW) is a foundation and a 501(c)(3) non-profit offering accessible hiking, camping and fishing near Grant, Colorado. Wheel:Life writer, Betsy Bailey, chatted with the managing director, Barbara Cramer, to get ...

lisagetsocial · Community Partners · Exercise · Wheel:Life · Wheelchair · Wheelchair Sports

Nov 29

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The Rollettes Take On an E.P.I.C. Project to Empower Others

Editor’s Note: Chances are, you’ve seen these ladies performing on social media or at a dance event before today, but you may have known their dance troupe by a different name.  Formerly known as the Walk and Roll Dance Team, the ...