Blog
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No Free Rides Episode #106 – Integrative Therapy Pioneer Chanda Hinton Leichtle
In podcast #106, Tiffiny is joined by the gorgeous Chanda Hinton Leichtle, a C5-6 quad from Denver and the famous namesake of the Chanda Plan Foundation.
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IZ Adaptive Designs to be Showcased in Museum Exhibit
Fashion Follows Form: Designs for Sitting at the Royal Ontario Museum showcases the brilliant designs of Izzy Camilleri and her line IZ Adaptive, which were created with wheelchair-users in mind, and designs from the 18th and 19th century.
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Wheels on Water: Making Boats Universally Accessible
Other than walking, getting on boats is another activity most people think we can’t do. Boy were they wrong.
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SCI Superstar: Barbara Turnbull
A longtime journalist for the Toronto Star, a two-time book author and a tireless advocate for improved public accessibility and spinal cord injury research, meet Barbara Turnbull.
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SCI Superstar: Mark E. Felling
The “mad scientist” of adapted technology, Mark Felling, Engineer, Patented Inventor and Founder of adapted gear profferer Broadened Horizons, is a quadriplegic on a mission.
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Summer Road Trips in a Wheelchair
There’s something uncannily freeing about taking a road trip that appeals to the spinal cord injured individual. It takes you out of your daily routine (oh God do we need it).
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SCI Superstar: Dr. Danielle Sheypuk
The "Carrie Bradshaw" of the disability dating world and Ms. Wheelchair New York 2012, meet Dr. Danielle Sheypuk, a clinical psychologist for the disabled on dating & sexuality, on SPINALpedia! She's also the first wheelchair-user to model in NY's Fashion Week and is a model in the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation's upcoming Raw Beauty NYC campaign.
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Dealing with the Dreaded SCI Anniversary
When your injury anniversary rolls around how do you feel? Angry, sad or just happy you've made it so far? Here are 3 videos from men with SCI from SPINALpedia! Shane's 7 things he's thankful/misses, Joe's first summer post-injury trying out dozens of adapted sports and Andrew visiting the site of his motorcycle accident on his 1st anniversary. How do you handle your anniversary??
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SCI Superstar: Robb Dunfield
A vent-dependent quad since a balcony fall since 1978, Robb Dunfield is a renowned Canadian artist and is one of the first vent quads in history to live outside a hospital, get married & have kids, all post-injury. Amazing guy, father, husband and artiste! Check him out on SPINALpedia!
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Wheelchair Dating Advice Direct from the Source
Some very good + insightful wheelchair dating advice - how to date us, what to do & not to do - from three disabled folk. Chase, a young man with paraplegia, Sonja D., a woman with Lupus, and Tiffany P., a paraplegic from Staten Island, NY who has no problem telling it like it is. You'll like this one if Savage Love is your thing, all direct from SPINALpedia!
