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Spinal Cord Injured & Grilling: How to Stay Safe
Our end-of-the-summer post: Accessible Grilling! Do you grill from your wheelchair? Check out three of the best accessible BBQ videos from the vaults of SPINALpedia - Video #1: Para uses charcoal grill & shares burn prevention tips. Video #2: Para lights a public grill on a windy day and Video #3: The world's only wheelchair accessible grill.
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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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Dogs Ridin’ On Wheelchairs
Happy Friday! SPINALpedia is all about dogs hitchin rides on wheelchairs today! We got a cute as heck black Pug who loves riding on a wc footrest, a Mini-Dachshund who rides on a skateboard pulled by it's powerchair-user owner and a smiley Golden Lab who can't get enough of being pushed in a manual chair. How does your dog or cat hitch a ride on YOUR wheelchair?
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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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10/22/2010: Wheelchair tennis star poses nude on cover of ESPN magazine’s Body Issue
Dutch wheelchair tennis athlete Esther Vergeer, 29, has been chosen to grace the cover of ESPN magazine’s 2010 Body Issue. She’s the first woman in a wheelchair to be featured in the magazine’s anticipated issue (which photographs athletes at the top of their game in artfully nude poses). Read more. – Tiffiny, the fashionista paralyzed blogger (bio)
