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SCI Spotlight: Kiesha Mastrodimos
Check out our SCI Spotlight person for the month of June – Kiesha Mastrodimos! A 21 year old from Alberta, Canada, she’s pushing ahead with her new life by helping others just like her with her how-to videos. Armed with a cell phone and a Mom who loves to record, Kiesha has made hundreds of videos showing how she does it all. Thank you Kiesha for helping the SCI community! Read more
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SCI Superstar: Riley Poor
A lifelong action sports film director who worked for Red Bull, Riley Poor had to re-tool his career after becoming a quad. Now an executive producer at Nike, he’s someone you won’t forget. Also a relationship blogger with his gf Andrea (Poor House Love) and a new fan of adaptive gardening, read about Riley’s life (and see his awesome universal accessible home) in the city of Portland here
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A New Year! Do You Need Love Advice?
Happy 2017! I hope you are healthy and relatively happy. My blog has been around for awhile (since 1996!), and my FT job as executive director of Spinalpedia.com has kept me busy…but my goal this year is to post more. If anyone out there is still reading 😉 I would love to strike up the Dating On Wheels advice column again, so if you have a burning question about this complicated topic, please send it to tiffiny@beautyability.com. I have been lucky enough to find a great guy, but oh my my has it been a struggle. Dating with a disability is hard. Dating is hard. But never lose hope. Let’s…
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Play Golf Again with AdapTee Golf
Slingshot Golf is an adapted sport for folks of ALL SCI levels. An able-bodied assistant, and specialized slingshot and pendulum are required. See how it’s played as demoed by Josh Basile, a lifelong golf junkie and C4-5 quadriplegic who created this sport. Click to learn more
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Wheelchair Dancers Recreate Famous Dance Scenes
I have been on the internet for forever and these famous dance scene recreations from film by People Dancing, a community dance project in the UK (that was completed in 2014) are crazy good, and I’m only discovering it now! The dance scenes are beautiful, polished, humorous; really perfectly done. The exhibit is called 11 Million Reasons and it took an entire year to complete. The world needs to see this! Please share what they’re doing. View the entire series of 20 images by Sean Goldthorpe here
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SCI Superstar: Harry Horgan
Meet our May SCI Superstar: Harry Horgman! Founder of the legendary adapted sailing program Shake-A-Leg Miami, he's credited for bringing adapted sailing to the masses. Read all about this passionate man, and how his injury in the early 1980's catapulted him into the sailing arena he lives in today.
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SCI Superstar: Peter Soby Jr.
Meet Spinalpedia's February SCI Superstar Peter Soby Jr! A film director, writer and producer from LA (but originally from Illinois), meet this cool cat who overcame a health scare in 2014 but keeps on truckin' AND tapping into his creative juices no matter what life throws at him.
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SCI Superstar: Rob Wudlick
Even though he’s only 30 years old, Rob Wudlick’s journey since his spinal cord injury has been one-of-the kind. A fresh SCI research advocate, newly injured people like Rob are refusing to accept spinal cord injuries as permanent, and what they’re doing to help the SCI community is helping in big ways. Other than working out since his injury using activity-based therapy (and being one of the most positive guys in the gym), he’s a founding member and Chairman of the Board for a nonprofit dedicated to curing spinal cord injury, Get Up Stand Up (GUSU), and is busy hitting the pavement at Capitol Hill (in his home state or…
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Working 2 Walk 2015: We Came, We Saw and We Left with Hope
Read SPINALpedia's write-up on U2FP/Working2Walk 2015! See pictures, read overviews of the most interesting presentations from SCI research programs and watch video of the presentations (and of the advocates!). It was a great 2 days. Hope to see you all next year at W2W 2016 in Minneapolis!
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Fashion Student Heidi McKenzie Becomes Paraplegic, Returns to Industry
Meet SPINALpedia's SCI Superstar this week - founder of ALTER UR EGO, Heidi McKenzie! A T4 paraplegic since 2007, this former fashion design student recently returned to fashion and just started her own adaptive clothing label. Starting with jeans, she has plans to create an entire clothing line.
