EasyStand Hires New Marketing Specialist

Brittany Ryan Mathiowetz

Altimate Medical Inc. recently added Brittany Ryan Mathiowetz to its marketing team as a Marketing Specialist. Brittany holds a Bachelor’s Degree from St. Cloud State University with emphasis in photography, graphic design, marketing, advertising, and management. Her previous positions have focused on print advertising, design, photography and SEO.[..}

Airplane inaccessibility: Unjust or a safety measure?

I was alerted to a petition today written by a spirited man with a spinal cord injury. In it, he argues why commercial airplanes should be made fully accessible to power wheelchairs.  And in case you didn't know, they're not right now. If you're like me and use a power wheelchair and you have [..}


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Podcast 97: Neil Picone – wheelchair bodybuilder

In podcast 97, Neil Picone, an IFBB Pro wheelchair bodybuilder from New Jersey is on the show (he was paralyzed 6 years ago in a motorbike crash), and boy is he awesome. With an upper body that is better than most guys and a sweetheart to boot, this relatively new bodybuilder has an amazing [..}


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iPad Apps for Special Needs Children

iPad Apps for Kids with Special Needs, Part II

Three years have passed since Apple first revealed the iPad in April 2010. In that short time, four major product updates have been released, the smaller iPad Mini was introduced, and countless apps have been added to the app store. Since it has been a few years since our original iPad Apps post, we [..}


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PCA Upheaval

PCA Upheaval

For the vast majority of my post-spinal cord injury lifestyle I have had a great deal of stability in regards to PCAs that come in to help me out with my personal cares. As I mentioned in a few years ago, a local hospital used to send home health aides to me every morning while I still lived at home [..}


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The one unexpected benefit of being paralyzed

When you're not "plugged into" your body (this is how I like to describe paralysis), yeah sure, I won't beat around the bush - it mostly sucks. But there's one bizarre benefit I've begun to notice the longer I'm paralyzed - you're not as plugged into your body. [..}


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Island of Misfit Toys

Falling in love with my misfitness

The Island of Misfit Toys seemed like the saddest place in the world to me as a kid. It was a place in Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer (the stop-animation cartoon) where toys that were broken or unwanted were sentenced to live out the rest of their days. Toy segregation. Not cool man. [..}


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Life After SCI: The Tiffiny Carlson Story

Our latest video in the Life After SCI series is live. The Tiffiny Carlson Story is chock full of great tips for those with recent spinal cord injuries, but will be just as relevant for veteran wheelchair users. Tiffiny tells it like it is and doesn't shy away from topics, check out the video - it [..}


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Good Craigslist PCAs an oxymoron?

It all used to work so great. If one of my PCAs had to move onto greener pastures, I'd go on Craigslist, place an ad and bam, get 20 - 50 replies just like that. But lately, I have no idea what's happening. It's not working like it used to. [..}


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How much would you pay not to be paralyzed?

My 30th anniversary of the accident that left me a paraplegic is coming up this April. On my anniversaries, I often ponder how life would have been if I had not taken that last drive of the night on my motorcycle. I do know this, the 30 years in a chair have been as full as anybody’s who is [..}


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