New Mobility Newsletter — September 1, 2022


New Issue

Life With SCI

Life with SCI is not predictable, but patterns and commonalities do emerge. When we first get out of rehab, life feels overwhelming. A handful of years later, many of us have reaped the rewards of peer support and are finding ways to reengage with life. By the time we hit the 10-year mark, we’ve got the experience to proceed with confidence, maybe even panache. After decades on wheels, aging with SCI presents some new challenges, but by now resilience is second-nature. Here are four people feeling their way through these four phases.

Products

Gear Guide: Wheels

Our latest Gear Guide describes the manual wheelchair wheels currently available in the U.S., including features, pricing, sizes and intended users. Whether you need a set that’s affordable yet durable, ultralightweight and built for speed, or capable of wheeling over rough terrain, we’ve got it here.

Pottery Barn Introduces Line of Stylish, Accessible Home Furniture

The Accessible Home line was designed to work for wheelchair users while ditching the clinical looks of many accessible furniture options. The line features more than 150 items, including adapted versions of some of the company’s most popular pieces of furniture — everything from adjustable beds to roll-under vanities, angle-adjustable mirrors, desks with easy-access shelving, modern grab bars and more.

Travel Resource

Becoming rentABLE Can Help You Find an Accessible Vacation Rental

Finding a short-term vacation rental that meets your particular accessibility needs can feel like an impossible task. Becoming rentABLE is a website that throws out the countless inaccessible offerings and lets you search through over 850 accessible rentals across the country. Using any combination of 36 different accessibility filters — including Hoyer lifts, roll-under kitchen sinks, wider doors and more — you may be able to find a property that can make your next trip memorable for all the right reasons.

United Spinal News

United Spinal Invited by Amazon to Participate in Virtual Crew For NASA’s Artemis I Mission

United Spinal’s Rhonel Cinous will participate in a virtual crew mission with NASA’s Orion spacecraft during the upcoming Artemis I mission. Cinous and other virtual crew members will remotely test how Callisto — a voice command interface to enable easy interaction between crew and spacecraft systems — could assist on future missions to the moon and beyond.  

Call For Stories and Writers

Assisted Suicide Opinions

Assisted suicide has been a controversial disability issue for decades. We’re looking for your thoughts on assisted suicide laws to help us present a range of perspectives on this complex topic. We are accepting anonymous submissions or bylined pieces, and the link will guide you through a few key questions.


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