Merchandise
Not A Wheelchair Gives Inexpensive Wheelchair Wheels and Picket Handrims
Not A Wheelchair sells customized handbook wheelchairs beginning at $999 and is now bringing its “practical and cheap” ethos to wheelchair parts. Its providing a set of light-weight rear wheels — full with tires, tubes and handrims — for $350 a pair, and picket handrims for $199 a pair.
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$40 Million Lower Threatens SCI Restoration Analysis
The 2025 federal funding invoice handed by Congress lower the complete $40 million funds of the Spinal Twine Damage Analysis Program, which funded analysis initiatives that included greater than 5,000 individuals and helped push alongside main advances like epidural and transcutaneous stimulation. Researchers fear the cuts will influence their capability to fund important practical restoration therapies.
Tribute
The Coronary heart of New Mobility
NM writer Jean Dobbs labored right here 34 years and helped produce 350 print points earlier than retiring final week. Her behind-the-scenes management has sustained NM for many years, and we will’t thank her sufficient for her talent and dedication to telling genuine tales from the neighborhood. Learn how a collection of probability encounters led Dobbs to a profession she by no means noticed coming.
Sports activities and Health
Adaptive Boxing Rolls into the Ring
At a small gymnasium in northern Virginia, a bunch of wheelchair customers comes collectively each week to apply the candy science of adaptive boxing. “Not rather a lot goes via your head since you’ve been coaching so lengthy that it’s nearly like your physique is aware of what it must do. It appears like the whole lot’s in sluggish movement — prefer it’s The Matrix,” says boxer Joanna Bonilla. Learn how the fledgling sport is attracting new individuals to its distinctive mix of health and competitors.
Professional Ideas
Make Air Journey Extra Accessible: A Dialog with Kelly Buckland
Wheelchair person and long-time advocate Kelly Buckland served as a incapacity coverage advisor for the Division of Transportation and helped push via much-needed air journey accessibility reforms. We talked with him about what he realized working on the DOT, what he sees occurring underneath the present administration, and the way wheelchair customers can combat for safer, extra accessible air journey.