Tag: rehab

11/22/2019

RISE: Putting the Fun in Functional Fitness for Wheelchair Users

Editor’s Note: When Wheel:Life writer Betsy Bailey overheard her booth neighbors at Abilities Expo San Mateo talking to attendees about wheelchair users working out at their gym, she knew she needed to find out more information to share with our...

07/10/2019

Wheels2Walking: Tips and Tricks for Wheelchair Users

Editor’s Note: When fitness enthusiast Richard Corbett fell 50 feet while out for a jog in 2010, he broke both his legs, shattered an elbow, and sustained an L2 incomplete spinal cord injury. The next few years were spent in...

06/19/2019

Cure Advocates Pay It Forward with SCI Peer Counseling Nationwide

A popular community program hosted by Cure Medical advocates aims to pay it forward by offering free spinal cord injury peer support events via local rehabilitation hospitals and nonprofit organizations nationwide.  The complimentary Pay It Forward peer counseling program also takes...

02/21/2018

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...

02/13/2017

Glen Schlotterbeck: Reinvent Yourself!

Editors note: As a graduate of the US Air Force Academy, Glen Schlotterbeck spent time as a fighter pilot in Europe during the final years of the cold war before becoming a commercial airline pilot. He had been flying for...

10/17/2016

Voices in the Wind: Chris Sheridan Survives His Plane Crash + SCI

Editor’s Note: Chris Sheridan lives in Los Angeles, California, and is 51 years old. In May 1991, he crashed the airplane he was flying, and his life changed forever. But just when he thought all hope was lost, he heard...

07/09/2015

Dan and Csala Beers: A Love Story on Wheels with Incredible Odds

Editor’s Note: Dan and Csala Beers of Slatington, Pennsylvania, are married, both use wheelchairs and have a story that’s hard to believe. This great love story has a strong bond running through it. Dan Beers Tells His Story Before my motorbike...

05/02/2015

Push to Walk with Cynthia Templeton

Editor’s Note: Cynthia Templeton is the founder and president of Push to Walk, a non-profit organization that provides specialized exercise, workout programs and resources to people with spinal cord injuries, brain injuries and any other neurological conditions that result in paralysis. Her...