Sentences with phrase «of wheelchair use»

Spinal cord injury victims may face a lifetime of wheelchair use, numerous surgeries, ongoing rehabilitation, inability to work, emotional trauma and additional challenges.

Terry Wahls, who's been on the show who wrote the book «Minding my Mitochondria» actually used the electrical stim to cure her MS.. She got out of a wheelchair using batter powered stem.

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«I remember going to get up to use the bathroom, and one of the nurses went to bring me a wheelchair and I was like, «Oh no I don't need that,»» says Walsh.

Residents have complained of the scooters routinely blocking sidewalks and building entrances, causing people to trip, and making sidewalks less accessible for people who use wheelchairs.

It also makes the view accessible to people who use wheelchairs, visitors afraid of heights, and others who choose not to purchase a ticket to the top.

It's disrespectful to depict able - bodied individuals using wheelchairs in advertising, and the same holds true for any other segment of the population who are impaired in some way.

Donna reminds Alison of her plan to resell used medical equipment such as scooters and wheelchairs.

Disability Rights Advocates, on behalf of the Independent Living Resource Center and two people who use wheelchairs, filed a class - action lawsuit today against Lyft.

In March, Disability Rights Advocates, on behalf of the Independent Living Resource Center and two people who use wheelchairs, filed a class - action lawsuit today against Lyft.

Her husband, Daniel Wani, is a U.S. citizen who uses a wheelchair and «totally depends on her for all details of his life,» her lawyer said.

Wani, uses a wheelchair and «totally depends on her for all details of his life,» Ibrahim's lawyer said.

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Dr. Rankin then adds: «My congregation, First Congregational Church of Webster Groves, Missouri, has installed an elevator which has made it possible for persons in wheelchairs and those of us using crutches to attend church.»

Social responsibility is a key part of the business and the cafe is the first in Georgia to be accessible to blind and visually impaired customers and those using wheelchairs.

And when you look back at the last decade, none of those youngsters have progressed in the way that they were hyped up to and yes I'm talking about the likes of Ramsey, Walcott, Jack Wheelchair and the Ox who all had a one season wonder of some sort, during one point in their Arsenal careers, thus far and We can't keep using this excuse for not buying ready made quality, which would instantly improve our chances of winning a major trophy or two, but No, Wenger wants to stick with a theory which clearly isn't working for us on the pitch, but he doesn't really care, as long as it works out well for saving the penny's and the pounds, in the place where it matters most for Arsenal fc, in the bank.

Chapman, for example, has the use a quite a bit of her upper body — her biceps, wrists, and shoulders all function well enough for her to push herself using the wheels of a manual wheelchair.

If you are one of my regular readers, you'll know that I'm disabled and use a wheelchair.

The nature center is universally accessible as are some trails with the use of our all - terrain wheelchair.

The Logan Square resident uses a wheelchair and says she knows many women who won't make appointments for a variety of reasons.

Soul Slings also makes a widely popular Buckle SSC (Soft Structured Carrier) and Meh Dai carrier, which are styles of carriers I have used successfully in the past for front carrying in a wheelchair.

Human rights campaigners have hit out at the plans by Enfield council, in London, which could see certain mobility scooters and powered wheelchairs with a limit of 8mph banned from using the pavement.

The letter goes on to highlight that the Highway Code Rules on the use of powered wheelchairs and mobility scooters explicitly state that pavements are safer than roads and should be used when available.

Prentiss, who uses a wheelchair and is Vice-President of the advocacy group Disabled in Action, also said that she felt slighted that the governor did not speak more broadly about others in the community, or about the needs of people with disabilities.

The oldest of the four living former US presidents, Bush, who served in office from 1989 to 1993, uses a wheelchair and has seemed frail in recent public appearances.

A wheelchair user without the use of their legs doesn't immediately rise up and walk because they become a Paralympian, someone with a lifelong health condition doesn't suddenly lose it.

«Under this legislation it will be illegal to operate any motorized device within New York City that is incapable of being registered with the New York State Department of Motor Vehicle, unless the motor vehicle is a wheelchair or other mobility aids designed for use by the disabled,» Quinn said at a press conference at City Hall.

She and her entire family have become sensitized to issues of access as a result of her mother's stroke and use of a wheelchair.

The Executive Chamber will not place a surcharge on a particular individual with a disability or any group of individuals with disabilities to cover the cost of providing auxiliary aids / services or reasonable modifications of policy, such as retrieving items from locations that are open to the public but are not accessible to persons who use wheelchairs.

A new survey of medical specialists by researchers in Springfield Massachusetts found many could not accommodate patients who use a wheelchair.

Before the dashboard erupted in flames, a heroic school bus driver, Jamal Richards, carried four disabled children to safety on Saturday on West Mosholu Parkway South, near Jerome Ave. Three of the children were in wheelchairs, and the other used a walker — none were injured.

«New York is a pedestrian city and people who use wheelchairs should be able to access every part of the city on its sidewalks,» said Daniel Brown, an attorney for the Center for Independence of the Disabled of New York.

Elite athletes are used to tinkering with the configuration of their wheelchairs in order to boost their sports performance, but they often do so using trial and error.

They also learned they could use thought to propel a small electric wheelchair toward a bowl of grapes.

From complex solutions used by well - known people — such as the late Christopher Reeve's use of a high - tech wheelchair — to simpler ones like screen magnifiers on our computers and speech recognition «voice commands» on our smartphones, technology makes some tasks easier.

The disease is progressively debilitating, and ultimately requires full - time use of a wheelchair.

Others credit Hawking for working on important problems in spite of the degenerative nerve disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, that led to his use of a wheelchair and eventually rendered him able to speak only through a computerized voice synthesizer.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

Each sensor would communicate information about the patient's body via short - range wireless signals to a small receiver (either handheld or hooked onto a bed or wheelchair) that would use longer - range wireless signals to share that information with the healthcare facility's centralized computer systems — all without the jumble of wires needed to do this today.

Of the women, 19 percent were classified as healthy, 14.7 percent had prevalent disease, 23.2 percent had incident disease, 18.3 percent had a mobility disability (using crutches, a walker or a wheelchair or a limited ability to walk) and 24.8 percent died.

Computer scientists from the University of Lincoln, UK, the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and University College Cork, Ireland, worked with a leading special needs school in Lincoln to examine whether new motion - based gaming technologies and interactive design approaches could make video games more accessible and appealing for children who use powered wheelchairs.

Wenzel describes the advantage of the second Bluetooth interface as follows: «The system not only enables interaction with electronic devices, it can also be used to transfer wheelchair data — such as battery capacity, motor currents, and errors in the drive system, for example — to a smartphone.»

The wheelchair is designed for people with severe neuromuscular disabilities, and can even be used in crowded or unfamiliar surroundings, says Javier Minguez, head of the team at the University of Zaragoza in Spain that is developing the chair.

This is common among children who use wheelchairs as a result of diseases like cerebral palsy and spina bifida.

One of Oden's student groups began working on designing a non-electric wheelchair that could be propelled by a young man who had limited use of his arms.

To get beyond the prototype phase with their smart wheelchair, Spletzer and his team will have to figure out how to get it to move autonomously without having to rely on the expensive LiDAR system that Little Ben used but rather on a combination of lower cost LiDAR and sonar sensors.

During training sessions for BrainGate, the computer software learns to associate patterns of neural activity with the intent to move a hand in a particular direction; it can use those intentions to pilot a computer cursor or, if all goes as planned, a motorized wheelchair.

A team of researchers is now looking to translate that success to the medical field by building so - called «smart wheelchairs» with artificial intelligence that uses lasers, sensors and mapping software to operate and navigate powered chairs for riders who can not do so on their own.

NJIT also explores the use of wheelchair - mounted robotic manipulators to assist people with cerebral palsy, SCI, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, and spinal muscular atrophy.

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Scientists also investigate optimal wheelchair use, prevention of secondary medical complications and barriers to community and workforce participation.