Join us on our second wheelchair thill-seeking event for the year. We will be onboard the Eye-Spy for a relaxing wheelchair friendly whale watching cruise. Departing from the Redcliffe Jetty at 9:30 am on the 19th Aug 2011. Returning at 3:00 pm the same day. Feel free to book your own tickets and join us.
Join us on our second wheelchair thill-seeking event for the year. We will be onboard the Eye-Spy for a relaxing wheelchair friendly whale watching cruise. Departing from the Redcliffe Jetty at 9:30 am on the 19th Aug 2011. Returning at 3:00 pm the same day. Feel free to book your own tickets and join us.
This is the story of how I met Jeff and our first date together. My boyfriend doesn't mind dating paraplegic girls. I use a wheelchair, leg braces and crutches because I'm paralyzed from my waist down. We really hit it off on our first date. I guess it’s hard for some men to commit to a relationship with a handicapped girl. Jeff seems to look past my disability though.
Guidelines on design production and selection of manual wheelchairs. How to produce and supply quality manual wheelchairs in less-resourced settings. Health and safety, strength and durability, suitability for use, and effective production methods are main design criteria. These determine functional performance, stability, manoeuvrability, pushing and transferring efficiency, transport and reliability. Solid Long term testing and follow-ups involve local wheelchair users knowledgeable about their physical, environmental, social and cultural needs.
65 million people need a wheelchair to live full active lives in their communities, only 45 million have one or can access one. A vital assistive device to people with limited mobility a wheelchair can open a world of education work and social life, in undeveloped countries.
Highly respected German photographer Rasso Bruckert frustrated with "hospital" type images of the disabled celebrates disability through his camera lens. A collection of his raw powerful images appeared in a gallery titled "Perfect/Imperfect" inviting us to challenge the way we think about beauty and disability.
Challenging the myth in society only the most glamorous, attractive and successful among us live fulfilling active, healthy and imaginative sexual lives, Intimate ENCOUNTERS is a powerful photographic exhibit of disability sexuality by Belinda Mason-Lovering. It's a journey that, if fully embraced, determines and moulds our identity and self-worth.
Photographer Sarah Murray and fellow Canadian artist Kyla Harris collaborate in the project Access Sex to present sexuality and physical disability together, encouraging the audience to look beyond the confines of the human body. For centuries the arts and media have failed to portray disability and wheelchair users in a positive sexual light. Access Sex aims to revolutionize that.
Sex after spinal cord injury made easy using a personal hoist sling as a sex swing. Spice up your wheelchair love life. Many sexual positions are hard to achieve with a disability due to paralysis and limited mobility. Increase your sexual ability, enhance intimacy, please your lover and watch your love life blossom. You'll get the swing of it.
Some sexual positions after spinal cord injuries like quadriplegia and paraplegia are best achieved by practising wheelchair sex. Modern wheelchairs with easy to remove armrests, footplates, folding backrests, and brakes make wheelchair sex fun and easy empowering greater sexual freedom. Some find paralysis and wheelchair users sexually attractive and actively seek them as partners for sex and life long love...
The odds of experiencing chronic pain at some point in our life is extremely high especially after spinal cord injury. Adequate early pain management has proven beneficial to long term chronic pain relief outcomes helping avoid one of the biggest fears related to chronic paiin, addiction to narcotic pain relief medications.
A Carlos Brooks film released by Magnolia Pictures in 2008, Quid Pro Quo stars Nick Stahl as Isaac Knott, a paraplegic radio reporter who dares follow the beautiful complex Fiona played by Vera Farmiga into the secretive world of self harm through wheelchair envy.
Six people living with spinal cord injury allow a brief glimpse into their lives. Making obvious the impact an NDIS would have not only the individual but society as a whole. 1.4 million disabled Australians need a National Disability Support Scheme to relieve pressure on their families and gain adequate support to live more independent lives.
