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New SCI Podcast! True Wheelchair Life: SCI Life Uncovered
It’s been way too long since I’ve had a regular podcast, which is why I’m extra excited about my new SCI podcast series with SpinalCord.com! We’re calling it – True Wheelchair Life: SCI Life Uncovered. In the first episode we’re talking about stem cell tourism. Is it worth it? World you do it again? We talked to three people with paralysis – Allie Leath, Gabriel Rodreick and Caleb Bartlett – all who’ve undergone experimental stem cell procedures in various locales worldwide. We get every angle from these fine folks who decided to be the much needed guinea pigs for the rest of the SCI population. Listen now
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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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SCI Superstar: Dr. Susan Harkema
Meet SPINALpedia's brilliant SCI Superstar this week Dr. Susan Harkema! She is the lead researcher from the University of Louisville who discovered that electrically stimulating the spinal cord can help people with SCI move their legs and even stand again. The stimulation has also even returned some sensation and bladder, bowel & sexual function in both complete and incomplete injuries.
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SCI Superstar: Wes Bandemer
SPINALpedia's SCI Superstar Wes Bandemer: Wow what a difference a change in diet makes! He's a former motocross racer turned Vegan and he's regained monumental return over 5 years post-injury by combining a new diet with embryonic stem cell treatments in India. Read his story of an unflappable will to get better below!
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SCI Superstar: Jan Scheuermann
Meet SPINALpedia's last SCI Superstar of 2014 Jan Scheuermann! A quadriplegic pioneer, she spent the last two years as a "lab rat" at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center helping test mind-controlled prosthetics and Hector the Robotic Arm. Paralyzed from the neck down from a rare condition 12 years ago, Jan is determined to use her situation for a greater purpose.
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SCI Superstar: Claes Hulting
One of the most well known wheelers in Sweden - Claes Hulting! Read the backstory behind the man who founded Stiftelsen Spinalis, one of the best SCI rehab centers in the world that focuses on healing the soul. He's also the first man with a SCI to have a biological child of his own via in-vitro.
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SCI Superstar: Barbara Turnbull
A longtime journalist for the Toronto Star, a two-time book author and a tireless advocate for improved public accessibility and spinal cord injury research, meet Barbara Turnbull.
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SCI Superstar: Mark E. Felling
The “mad scientist” of adapted technology, Mark Felling, Engineer, Patented Inventor and Founder of adapted gear profferer Broadened Horizons, is a quadriplegic on a mission.
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Wheelchair Dating Advice Direct from the Source
Some very good + insightful wheelchair dating advice - how to date us, what to do & not to do - from three disabled folk. Chase, a young man with paraplegia, Sonja D., a woman with Lupus, and Tiffany P., a paraplegic from Staten Island, NY who has no problem telling it like it is. You'll like this one if Savage Love is your thing, all direct from SPINALpedia!
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SCI Superstar: Travis Roy
Paralyzed 11 seconds into his first game playing for Boston University, Travis Roy has gone on to found one of Boston's biggest non-profits that's also become one of the most prolific SCI research charities in the US - the Travis Roy Foundation. Find out that and much more about this now-38 year old speaker on SPINALpedia!
