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COVID-19 Guia pa personanan ku dwarslaesie

COVID-19 Guia pa personanan ku dwarslaesie

E pagina informativo aki a keda hinka den otro pa pone bo na altura, kiko lo mester hasi durante e fase aki di e Pandemia di Covid-19. Persona nan ku ta biba ku Dwarsleasie haltu mayoría biaha tin difikultad pa hala rosea i ku nan funshon di pulmón. Nan ta kore risiko...

How a Man With Tetraplegia Plays Gran Turismo Sport with His Mouth

How a Man With Tetraplegia Plays Gran Turismo Sport with His Mouth

Injured in a motorcycle accident, Alvaro Blanco is now able to play video games with something called a Quadstick. After a motorcycle accident injured his spinal cord, Alvaro Blanco was no longer able to use his hands and feet to control his favorite racing game — but...

Paralyzed People Control the Robot Waiters at a Japanese Cafe

Paralyzed People Control the Robot Waiters at a Japanese Cafe

In a win-win outcome for patients with spinal cord injuries and Japanese startup tech company Ory Lab, robotic waiters are working full shifts, allowing spinal cord injury sufferers to work by proxy. Technological innovations, whether nano-sized or full-scale, have...

Two pilots in wheelchairs create history in UAE

Two pilots in wheelchairs create history in UAE

Duo lands in UAE as part of global mission to raise awareness about disability Dubai: Two paraplegic pilots on wheelchairs have created history in UAE airspace by landing in Dubai World Central as part of a global Handi-flight mission to raise awareness about...

Handcycle Speed Record

Handcycle Speed Record

It’s official — Scottish para-athletes Karen Darke and Ken Talbot have both set land speed world records, powering a handcycle faster than any human has before at the annual World Human Powered Speed Challenge in Battle Mountain, Nevada. After a number of runs through...

Parenting From a Wheelchair: Year one of the Ewan Experience

Parenting From a Wheelchair: Year one of the Ewan Experience

Kelly and I didn’t even have a name picked out before he was born. After eight months of waffling, Ewan and Micah were the boy-name finalists. Choosing a name that he’d carry through life seemed like a big responsibility. Then out he popped, all wrinkles and cries and...

I might be quadriplegic, but I’m your doctor

I might be quadriplegic, but I’m your doctor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0doNAqBdBDc   Dr Palipana tells his story in his own words. I didn’t grow up wanting to be a doctor. And I certainly never imagined practising medicine with quadriplegia. I was exactly halfway through medical school when my car...

Quadriplegic Finds Adrenaline Rush With Racing Drone

Quadriplegic Finds Adrenaline Rush With Racing Drone

https://youtu.be/FINbdXiHEmg   On January 10, 2012, Agustin Zanoli was 18 years old and spent his summer vacation in Carilo, a seaside resort on the Argentine coast. During a quad race in sand dunes the Cordoba resident, now 24, lost the use of his arms and legs....

20 Years Lei di Labizjan

20 Years Lei di Labizjan

  As a follow-up to the Symposium of December 2nd, 2016, Totolika organized a symposium “20 years ‘Lei di Labizjan’”. It was held on December 2nd, 2017, at ‘Landhuis Klein Kwartier’. Although there were not many participants, the contents of the symposium were...

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol (A/RES/61/106) was adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was opened for signature on 30 March 2007. There were 82 signatories to the...

First person with paraplegic as a head of state in Latin America

First person with paraplegic as a head of state in Latin America

  Lenin Moreno was declared the winner of Ecuador’s April 2 presidential election, becoming the first person with paraplegia to be elected as a head of state in Latin America. Moreno, who served as vice-president of Ecuador under Raphael Correa from 2007-2013,...

Pump On Wheels with Ruth Kroes

Starting March 2017 every third Saturday of the month we will be having Pump On Wheels with Ruth Kroes at our facility in colon.  A 45 minute fitness session specially for people in wheelchair.     https://youtu.be/8Cbzu027_dw

Walking with hope

Walking with hope

Patients with spinal cord injuries are challenging mainstream treatments in their bid to recover use of their paralysed limbs. Quadriplegic Matthew Pierri reports. Read more

Exploring Frontiers of Recovery

Exploring Frontiers of Recovery

In 2010 a fall from a second-story window nearly killed me. I broke my back and the damage to my spinal cord left me paralyzed from the waist down. From the moment I hit the ground I joined a global community of people who, according to the experts, have no hope of...

Kon bo ta apelá rechaso pa AVBZ ‘Lei di Labizjan’ na SVB.

Kon bo ta apelá rechaso pa AVBZ ‘Lei di Labizjan’ na SVB.

Nos tur tin sierto derechonan basiko pa loke ta trata kuido mediko. Spesialmente personanan ku malesa króniko, ku tin derechi riba kuido di akuerdo ku lei AVBZ. Riba e website di SVB bo por haña tur informashon di e lei aki ku ta para pa Algemene Verzekering...