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SCI Superstar: Alana Nichols
The only US woman to win gold in both Paralympics (both wheelchair-basketball and downhill skiing), check out the amazing story of 30 year downhill skiier Alana Nichols on SPINALpedia, getting ready to kick more butt in Sochi!
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Video Shaming: Catching Handicapped Parking Offenders
Gotta love it - Friday video-shaming of disability parking offenders from SPINALpedia!
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SCI Superstar: Monica Quimby
The 26 yr old adjunct biology professor who's currently a Paralympic athlete in-training for both kayaking and paracanoe, this is the awesome story of @Ms. Monica Quimby- Ms. Wheelchair Maine 2011, the ski-bum at-heart chica from Scarborough, Maine.
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Recovering From a Wheelchair Fall
If you use a wheelchair, we've all been there before - the scary epic wheelchair fall. Here are 3 videos from SPINALpedia on how to recover (if you have the arm strength that is). How do YOU get yourself back up from a tip over? Do you have any tricks not yet made public?
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SCI Superstar: Dr. David Card
One of the few medical doctors with a spinal cord injury in the world, learn all about the amaaazing Dr. David Card on SPINALpedia! A family practice doc practicing medicine in Bellevue, Washington who shows colleagues and patients each day what it takes to be a true badass.
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Halloween on Wheels
Ok great ready for the best wheelchair Halloween-related post you'll see all day - 4 primo Halloween videos from SPINALpedia, with one of my favorite twisted wheelchair costumes - a 1930's electric chair, with working electric sparks on the head plate (someone give this guy an award!). And also check out costumer on wheels MattBeebe's thoughts on wheelchair costumes and if incorporating the chair is always a must, plus a disco ball on wheels and an animated wheelchair prop to give your mom a heart attack.
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SCI Superstar: Rachelle Freidman Chapman
Showing the world you have no choice but to carry on when you sustain a SCI, learn more about "paralyzed bride" Rachelle Freidman Chapman on SPINALpedia, now married and fiercely enjoying life.
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SCI Folks Open Up On Health & Nutrition
Do you avoid medication whenever possible? How much weight did you lose after breaking your neck or back? Three folks with SCI open up on how they got healthy post-injury, all on SPINALpedia!
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SCI Superstar: Roman Reed
When he broke his neck, Roman Reed could bench press 430lbs and was a shoe in for the NFL. But even though his life went on a different path, the path he's been on has been amazing, having resulted in over $50 million in SCI research.
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Brits, Women and Quads Take On Wheelchair Boxing
Fast, cheap to play, and an insane cardio workout even while sitting down, check out our three favorite wheelchair boxing videos at SPINALpedia! Watch "Clyde" from the Hastings Wheelchair Boxing Academy (UK-based) wail on an opponent, watch two quads go toe-to-toe and we even found a mega-tough FEMALE show how punching a bag is done. Have you tried boxing?