Merchandise
Bowhead Nano Journey Chair: Reviewed
Bowhead’s new ultraportable Nano has the potential to alter the way in which many wheelchair customers journey, very like the corporate’s line of high-end handcycles modified adaptive outside recreation. Weighing beneath 10lbs and rapidly folding to slot in your lap, the Nano is compact sufficient to function a light-weight bathe chair or an airplane aisle chair. Arielle Rausin, a T11 paraplegic and guide wheelchair person, not too long ago examined the Nano. Click on the headline for her full overview and watch an Instagram in need of her testing it.
A Secure, Efficient Resuable Catheter System
What in case you took a handful of the very best options from premium catheters and put them right into a catheter that got here with a small, transportable base that allowed you to simply clear, disinfect and reuse the catheter?
That’s the concept behind Aurie, a reusable intermittent catheter system that’s trying to disrupt and enhance the way in which customers get and use intermittent catheters. Earlier this 12 months, Aurie turned the primary reusable catheter system to obtain FDA approval and we talked with the system’s designer to see what customers can count on.
Politics
Meet the Wheelchair Person Combating for Iowa’s Open Senate Seat
On June 2, Josh Turek, a guide wheelchair person with Spina Bifida and Paralympic gold medalist, received the Democratic major for Iowa’s open U.S. Senate seat. The upcoming Senate race is without doubt one of the most high-profile races within the nation, with many analysts forecasting that Turek has an actual probability to contest the Senate seat in what has been a Republican stronghold. Learn extra about how Turek is leaning into his incapacity to attach with working-class voters in Ian Ruder’s current Q&A with the Senate hopeful.
Advocacy
How Wheelchair Customers’ Restore Tales Moved a Congresswoman to Act
Subsequent week, on the 2026 Roll on Capitol Hill, over 100 wheelchair customers from round America will meet just about with their elected representatives to advocate for insurance policies vital to the incapacity group. A kind of insurance policies is a invoice to remove the necessity for prior authorization for wheelchair repairs for all Medicare Benefit recipients. Ian Ruder writes how the invoice would possibly by no means have seen the sunshine of day if not for the efforts of members of SCIboston.
Day within the Life
Jarom Hlebasko, GIS Supervisor and Wheelchair Cushion Firm Co-Proprietor
Jarom Hlebasko already had a job he beloved and a household that saved him lots busy, however that didn’t cease him from including one other main accountability. When the corporate that made the wheelchair cushion he relied on went out of enterprise, he purchased the corporate. Hlebasko, a C5 quadriplegic, shares what a typical (busy) day in his life appears like.
Professional Ideas
Roll Out and Backyard
Summer time formally arrives this week, and what higher means is there to take pleasure in it than spending some hours rolling round your backyard absorbing the solar? In the event you haven’t planted your summer time veggies but otherwise you’re undecided tips on how to plantmaxx as a wheelchair person, Paula Larson’s 2018 characteristic has you coated.