Tech
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Wheelchair-User’s GoPro Extreme Adventures
The simply amazing GoPro camera can go ANYWHERE. Check out three insane wheelchair perspectives shot with this brilliant camera - a paralyzed pro-surfer in Costa Rica (omg!), a Canadian TV reporter bungee jumping while in her chair and get inside a heated wheelchair lacrosse game (eeks!).
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Never Before Seen Wheelchair Elevators
Two sweet wheelchair-specific elevators that will undoubtedly impress you on SPINALpedia - one is a funicular-inspired elevator for subway stops in Seoul, South Korea, the other - an "Escavator" made for a basement in a home in Everywhere, USA.
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SCI Superstar: Capt. Stewart McQuillan
Meet Captain Stewart McQuillan - the amazingly smart veteran of the Royal Air Force, paralyzed in combat in 1988, is the world's first paraplegic to independently fly a helicopter. He invented the "Aeroleg," an external leg brace that moves via a thumb control, allowing paralyzed pilots to use the essential helicopter foot pedals. Learn that & more on SPINALpedia!
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Adapted Skydiving Part Deux: The No Fear Club
Three sweet skydiving videos from wheelchair-users - a quad, a para, and a 19 yr old with CP - all showing how they can still skydive, as well as a video of a quad driving the sportscar, a Nissan GT-R, on SPINALpedia!!
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Getting Even Smarter: More Ways to Climb Stairs From Your Wheelchair
How do you climb stairs?? Hill-Holders in reverse to hoist yourself up stairs, a C7 quad bumping curbs like a rockstar and a para showing the delicate process of climbing steps in braces. Check out these fascinating up-stairs tips from wheelers on SPINALpedia!
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Keepin’ Your Ride Immaculate: The Best Wheelchair Cleaning Techniques
Are you riding dirty? Check out three of our "Best of" wheelchair cleaning videos on SPINALpedia, showing how easy it is to make your wheelchair a sparkling clean beacon of awesomeness, from an automated tire scrubber to throwing your chair in the pool. What tips do you have for keeping your chair clean?
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Beautiful Wheelchair Art Installations
From "Superman's Wheelchair" in Ireland featuring Christopher Reeve's wheelchair to an amazing wheelchair roll cage dreamt up by the fantastical minds at Dandelion Dance Theatre in San Francisco, check out three of the best wheelchair art exhibits of all time on SPINALpedia!
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Just Say No to Curbs
From using the Trackchair to traverse those pesky curbs to Erik Kondo's brilliant "pull-up" move using parking meters, watch three wheelers on SPINALpedia share there way impressive curb climbing tricks! What tricks do you use?
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Get Your Walk-On with Gait Training
Gait training aka locomotor training is the coolest thing to happen to rehab for spinal cord injuries. Check out three videos courtesy of SPINALpedia showing how this amazing therapy works. Have you tried gait training?
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Wheelchair Accessible Snorkeling: An Awesome View
Sweet adapted snorkeling videos courtesy of SPINALpedia! Check out the EZ Snorkel Chair, a chair that helps quads go snorkeling, plus an adapted snorkel mask for a teen with CP and watch a para fling himself into the ocean to go snorkeling in the Cayman Islands.