Tagged with: burn calories wheelchair Have you ever wondered how many calories your daily activities burn?
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Burn Calories using a manual wheelchair
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Importance of Activity in Persons with Disabilities
Tagged with: Physical Activity wheelchair Anyone that knows anything about physical activity or about persons with a disability should know that physical activity is just as essential in the overall well being of someone with a disability as it is for someone without a disability. Physical activity is not only essential for the countless physical benefits, but the mental and emotional well being as well. Unfortunately, people with disabilities are less likely to engage in regular moderate physical activity than people without disabilities despite the fact that they have similar; if not an increased need to promote health and prevent unnecessary disease.
Opportunity in Disguise IV-Clay Walker
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Clay Walker, a multi-platinum country music artist discovered his passion for music at the age of 15 competing in community talent competitions. By the age of 17, he wrote and self-recorded his own song and hand delivered the tape to a local radio station. The radio station told the young boy that they did not play self-submitted tapes. However, they listened to his tape and confessed it was “too good to pass up.” He continued singing at local restaurants around Beaumont, Texas until the young singer’s talent was officially discovered in 1993. He has since released a total of 11 albums.
Opportunity in Disguise III-Christopher Reeve
Tagged with: advocate assistive technology awareness disabilities disability programs research spinal cord injury wheelchair How would you like to be told you could be superman, the actual superman, a character that has been around since 1932 and known all around the world? Well, a man that did not take anything for granted had that very opportunity.
How Skateboarding has Inspired Wheelchair Action Art
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Skateboard painting is a form of art where an artist paints directly onto the skateboard deck or where the skateboarder uses a skateboard as a paintbrush to create works of art on their concrete canvas.
Woman Paralyzed At Bachelorette Party Will Finally Marry
Tagged with: bachelorette party marriage paralyzed spinal cord injury wheelchair Rachelle Friedman will soon finally get to walk down the aisle. She would have already been married a year ago, but an accident days before the big day left her paralyzed. Now, a year after the accident she will get to marry her then fiancé.
What kind of people steal wheelchairs from little boys or little dogs?
Tagged with: disability stolen wheelchair wheelchairs Sometimes the world seems to be full of sick and twisted people, but then the nameless, faceless knight-in-shining-armor types can restore our faith in humanity.
Daredevil Aaron ‘Wheelz’ Fotheringham motto: If God gives you a wheelchair, go find a skatepark
Tagged with: disability extreme sports spina bifida wheelchair Aaron ‘Wheelz’ Fotheringham was born with Spina Bifida, but that certainly didn’t slow him down. Wheelz has done more adrenaline-junky maneuvers before age 20 than most of us will in a lifetime. The 19-year-old daredevil says his motto is, “If God gives you a wheelchair, go find a skatepark.”
Robotic Wheelchair: Mall Shoppers Dream Come True?
Tagged with: bizarre disability elderly robotics wheelchair This is a sweet project that might make people who don’t even need a wheelchair want to try it out. You make an appointment via a smartphone for this robotic wheelchair to meet you outside of a shopping mall. It drives itself, has plenty of safety features for maneuvering within crowds, and can take a shopper directly to a specifically requested department. This wheelchair even remembers a shopper’s favorite / regular products, suggesting and navigating to those items automatically.
