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United Spinal Association

Link to make a donation and receive the beuatiful Living From The Heart Calendar
Link to wheelchair safety gear on sale at United Spinal online store.
Wheelchair and scooter parts. Discount for site visitors. Link to inquiry form.

Minimalist Wheelchair Moves Pride Mobility Spokesperson

Minimilast wheelchair moves Pride Mobility [...]

Michigan Tech Students Develop A Human Powered Off Road Wheelchair

A group of students at Michigan Tech pulled together to develop a human push powered off road [...]

Toyota Thought Controlled Wheelchair

The Pack Rat Wheelchair Backpack

The Wheelchair Pack Rat for those who want to carry more along for the [...]

Off-Road Manual Wheelchair Made From Carbon Fiber

Carbon Fiber manual wheelchair designed to use off [...]

Wheelchair Safety and Fun Light

Something new in the way of safety and fun for the manual wheelchair user who wants to up their visibility and accessorize their chair at the same time.

The clip on light can be used to increase visibility or to create a cool underglow beneath your wheelchair.

The wUnderGlow Wheelchair Light that attaches to a your manual [...]

Eye Control Wheelchair Steals The Show

An electronic wheelchair operated only by blinking eyes stole the limelight at the Robotic and Technology (Ro-Tech) 2009 exhibition at the Diponegoro University in Semarang.

Afar Fuady of the Nov. 10 Institute of Technology team that invented the wheelchair said the equipment was designed to facilitate people with disabilities to conduct their daily activities. Powered by [...]

Student Develops Geared Wheelchair

From WGEM

URBANA, Ill. (AP) — A grad student studying mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois watched wheelchair users on campus and had a thought: If gear shifting is good for motorists and bicyclists, why not for wheelchairs?

Scott Daigle figured that adding gear shifting to a wheelchair could help people get around more efficiently. So [...]

Desktop Desk Leveling The Playing Field On Disability

The Desktop Desk can benefit individuals with disabilities on many different levels. It does the small things like helping provide individuals with hyperactive and autistic tendencies the means to focus and participate, while also providing students who can’t speak or who have limited motor skills the ability to more independently participate in classes and [...]

Tongue Drive For Powered Wheelchairs

Researchers at Georgia Technical Institute of Technology are developing a new way for users to control power wheelchairs, using a technology called the Tongue Drive [...]