Researchers Use Electricity for Pain in Amputated Limbs
By Nate Crosby, SPR Therapeutics, LLC Nearly 1.7 million Americans are living with an amputation and another almost 200,000 will undergo an amputation this year. The number of people living…
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Best and Worst Places to Live for People with Disabilities
Congrats to the Heartland of America! According to an analysis by consumer finance website WalletHub, Overland Park, Kansas tops the chart as the best place to live for the disability…
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Group Travel…Is It for You?
By Debra Kerper, Easy Access Travel In all honesty, it took me a long time until I was ready to invite clients to join a group trip whether cruise or land.…
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Myth-Busting – Four Rumors about Home Accessibility
By Deborah Pierce, Author of The Accessible Home: Designing for All Ages and Abilities How much do you really know about home accessibility? There is a lot of misconception and downright…
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Small Space, But Still Accessible
By Deborah Pierce, AIA, CAPS, Author of The Accessible Home One of the myths of home accessibility is that houses need to be especially large. There’s a concern that wider doorways and…
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Accessible and Universal Home—Thinking Beyond the Wheelchair
By Deborah Pierce, AIA, CAPS, Author of The Accessible Home Accessibility is usually a low priority when young families are house-hunting. Good schools, certainly, a modern kitchen—these features top most…
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The Joy of Cruising
By Debra Kerper, Easy Access Travel It is often said that taking a child to Disneyland for the first time and experiencing the Magic Kingdom through their eyes is the…
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7 Habits of Successful Travelers
By Ashley Lynn Olson, wheelchairtraveling.com Planning your dream vacation, looking to getaway or just need to travel for business or otherwise? The world is perfectly accessible to everyone, but with the…
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New Film Highlights Incredible, Hard-Earned Recovery Post SCI
By Shaina Ostroff Fifteen years after a profoundly life-altering accident, Aaron Baker lives a life that medical professionals never would have believed possible. A motocross racer deemed a complete quadriplegic after a…
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Ambassadors Impact Lives on the Show Floor and Beyond
By Margarita Elizondo, CEO and Founder of Rolling With Me and Abilities Expo Ambassador In order to truly show the community that you serve how much you love them, the…
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#ThisIsHowI Campaign Showcases What’s Possible
By Brittany Dejean, AbleThrive Join AbleThrive on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3rd to celebrate abilities with the #ThisIsHowI campaign. The campaign kicks off on this day and…
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Medicaid Cuts to Complex Rehabilitation Technology Threaten Access for Disability Community
By Don Clayback, NCART Cuts to Illinois’ Medicaid program are squeezing Complex Rehabilitation Technology (CRT) providers to the point where they are not be able to provide services to the nearly…