Category: Multiple Sclerosis

04/26/2021

Three Women with Mobility Challenges Share their Experiences with Motherhood:: Meet Ovi

Editor’s Note: This series features a panel of women with various disabilities and mobility challenges who share their personal experiences with motherhood, and resources that other women can use to overcome and cope with those challenges. Three women with mobility...

03/10/2017

Wheeling around the World with Susie Twydell

Editor’s Note: Based in England, Susie Twydell, an avid traveler and wheelchair user since 2012, came up with the idea to start a website aggregating accessible travel information from all over the internet. Her site, wheelchairworld.org, was born in 2015....

11/26/2016

Speak Up Now to Save Your Wheelchair: Fight Medicare Cuts

Your window is narrowing to preserve access to mobility equipment – Take action now! On July 1, Medicare drastically cut funding for home medical equipment by 50-80% in rural areas, deeply impacting wheelchair users. People for Quality Care is calling...

12/17/2015

Tarita Davenock Puts More Fun into Accessible Traveling

Editor’s Note: Most people think of life-changing experiences as something bad that happens to them. When 29-year old multi-lingual Tarita Davenock of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, her physician urged her to leave her role as...

06/02/2014

Get Out & Enjoy Life with Wheel:Life’s Accessible Travel Contest

Summer is passing in epic fashion and many of you have already embarked on extreme adventures.  So what better way to celebrate summer than to roam? It’s time for the Get Out, Enjoy Life 2014 contest with SPORTS ’N SPOKES, Life...

04/14/2014

To Propel or Not? Ask Your Shoulders the Question

Editor’s Note: Our friends at The Mobility Project – an initiative created by Mobility Management magazine – are sharing a series of articles with Wheel:Life to help empower our community of wheelchair users, assistive technology users and their families! We’ll be...

02/26/2014

Wheel:Life Heads West to the 2014 Abilities Expo in Los Angeles

Wheel:Life will be onsite at the 2104 Abilities Expo event taking place this weekend in Los Angeles! Join us to discover and explore a whole new world of opportunity on the Abilities Expo show floor. The event is FREE to attend, simply...

02/03/2014

Connecting with a Peer Support Group in Your Community

It takes time to adjust to using a wheelchair, no matter why you’re using one.  Having a friend who has already rolled a mile in your shoes can help make the journey a little smoother.  That’s why Wheel:Life encourages all of our readers to...

01/14/2014

10 Fundraiser Ideas to Help People with Disabilities

Wheel:Life, an online community for wheelchair users worldwide, has published 10 Fundraiser Ideas to Help People with Disabilities as a new e-book on Amazon.com. Wheel:Life publications center on sharing resources and support for people who use wheelchairs. Within 10 Fundraiser...

08/30/2013

Wheel:Life Announces 2013 Get Out, Enjoy Life Contest Winners

The 2013 Get Out, Enjoy Life contest has officially come to a close, after several weeks of contest fun and audience participation this summer! Our program partner, SPORTS ‘N SPOKES magazine, has shared the event highlights in their September issue and the...