Review any video of an impressive personal achievement on social media and you will see a wide variety of comments. Broadly speaking, the...

The concept of normalization has been well established. Normalization occurs when ideas and behaviors that fall outside of current social...

Part I, Part II Inherent Conflicts between Static Stability and Dynamic Stability A manual wheelchair is complex device that can be setup...

Read PART I The World is Not Smooth and Flat Historically, wheelchairs have been designed primarily for rolling on flat and smooth surfac...

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The Problem Bike-share bicycles and scooters blocking sidewalks or haphazardly strewn about are a systemic problem in need of a systemic ...

Proper use of a Leveraged Lift via the Body Lever is the key to a successful Floor-to-Wheelchair transfer (FWT). Yet, few people understa...

Bad Design Has Consequences Bad Design is like bad art in that there is always someone who loves it. But for the Disability Community, Ba...

I recently saw a GroPro video of a monoskier, Trevor Kennison, skiing off Corbet’s Couloir in Jackson Hole Wyoming. After getting over my...

The following post explains the modifications I made to the Cycleboard Sport in order to ride it using my wheelchair. I am sure there are...

I surveyed about fifty manual wheelchair users and discovered that about ninety percent of them weighed themselves a few times a year or ...

“Be thankful for what you have, it could always be worse”. This is a fairly common message used to remind people about how “lucky” they s...

Let’s face it. It’s not working. Mobility devices for wheelchair users have seen only incremental improvements in their design and functi...

The WWoL is a modification of the Wheel of Life[1]. It takes into consideration the influence of society (external factors) and the perso...

When it comes to enhancing mobility performance for wheelchair users and others with mobility impairments, it is useful to think in terms...

The WTCS is a classification system for rating terrain. It provides wheelchair users, designers, and product manufacturers a means to eas...

You did “awesome!” This phrase is thrown quite a bit when describing how a person with spinal cord injury performed some type of athletic...

Over the years, we have seen dramatic improvement in the development of artificial limbs for amputees. Prostheses have progressed from wo...

When it comes to personal mobility devices for Wheelchair-Users, there are a few important principals to consider. In general, the more o...

A comparison of mobility types, and what wheelchair users really want. When it comes to personal mobility, there are different ways to ap...