Products

Wheelchair Users’ Favorite Home Workout Products

We asked our social media audience to share their favorite home workout products and they delivered recommendations on the most accessible strength and cardio equipment, along with online fitness services made by and for wheelchair users. Whatever your budget and level of function, we’ve got something for you.

Sex, Wheels and Relationships

Using Fantasy to Liberate, Rather Than Erase My Disabled Identity

After her spinal cord injury, Kelsey Petersen used fantasy to reconnect with her body and the sensations that she’d lost. But then, a long-distance romance helped her realize the value of bringing her present self into the fantasies she was creating. “I can invite my disabled body into the fantasy, and still be limitless, it just takes a little courage, curiosity, and creativity,” she writes.

Perspectives

Finding Ease in a Body with Cerebral Palsy

For Greg Moomjy, functioning with CP often felt like he was forcing his body to do things it didn’t want to do. Then, an opera-singer friend introduced him to the Alexander Technique, a therapeutic method that aims to integrate your thinking and movement. Moomjy explains how the technique completely changed his relationship with his body, reduced his spasms and allowed him to eliminate some medications.

Paralympics

Five Storylines to Watch at the 2026 Winter Paralympics

The Milan Cortina Paralympics start in less than two weeks, on March 6, and all the action will be shown on Peacock, NBC’s streaming service. Elliott Lapin breaks down the most interesting Team USA storylines of this year’s games, including a chance for sled hockey history, whether the U.S. will get its first wheelchair curling medal, and whether Paralympic superstar Oksana Masters can continue her cross-country skiing and biathalon dominance.

Pro Tips

Comparing Your SCI to Others

We can learn so much by finding parallels with people who have similar disabilities, but no two injuries are the same. In 2019, we talked to wheelchair users about comparing your SCI to others. One common theme? Sometimes in trying to find similarities, we lose sight of our own unique strengths.