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iFly Indoor Skydiving Opens Thrill of Flight to All Abilities
By Katherine Tillman, iFly Baltimore Individuals with special needs can soar beyond physical and cognitive barriers while experiencing indoor skydiving with iFly, the world’s largest indoor skydiving operator. Disability Community…
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy as a Treatment for Spinal Cord Injury
By Sarah Galbraith Laucks, OxyLife Hyperbarics Hyperbaric oxygen therapy(1), also known as HBOT or HBO therapy, is a treatment procedure that takes place inside an air sealed, transparent chamber filled with…
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Who Wants to Go to the Dentist? Not Me!
By Jolene Montgomery The 2016 US Census recorded that nearly 1 in 8 Americans are living with some form of disability and it is estimated that nearly 75% of adults in the…
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GO-Anywhere Shower Chair Expands Travel Horizons for Disability Community
By Laura Halvorson, Disability Rights Advocate and Abilities Expo Ambassador Traveling with a disability can be a challenge, but it can be done. When you have a physical disability and…
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Product Spotlight: GRIT Freedom Chair
If wheelchairs have opened doors for people with disabilities, the new Freedom Chair rips it off the hinges. But its ingenuity is not in a souped-up, mother-boarded, turbo-powered engine; it is in…
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Fleximug: Live Flexibly
The mug with the mobility and mission to change six million lives is here, and the product line is getting geeked out with new upgrades. Meet the Fleximug. Small Improvements in…
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Ditch the DEHP in Your Catheters
By Lisa Wells, Cure Medical Is your intermittent catheter made with a chemical called DEHP? It’s time to find out! On March 1, 1987, after a popular voter initiative was approved,…
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Conductive Education Instills Self-Reliance
Conductive education is an intensive, multi-disciplinary approach to education, training and development for individuals with cerebral palsy, spina bifida and other conditions with neurological challenges. Though first developed decades ago,…
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ClipDifferent: A Better Way to Clip Your Fingernails
By Melanie McMullen, ClipDifferent As any person with a disability can tell you, there are dozens of mundane tasks throughout the day that are often taken for granted by the…
