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The $1,000 wheelchair
What do you get when you add YouTube’s startup capital, cutting-edge manufacturing techniques, and a consumer-centric sales model? A wheelchair that could revolutionize the mobility equipment industry. Seth McBride travels to Utah to visit Not a Wheelchair and see how the company plans to offer a custom manual wheelchair for $1,000.
Video review
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The miracle of flight 3313
Who needs stem cells or cutting-edge research, when disabled people are miraculously cured simply by getting on a plane and flying? Ian Ruder shares his first-hand experience.
Recreation
Finding brotherhood and sport in adaptive mountain biking
When Sierra Roth, a former motocross racer, started adaptive mountain biking, she was often the only woman in a group of riders, so she started a series of retreats to create a safe space for women to learn. Participants agree that the sport is incredible, but most importantly they have found a community of like-minded women to share the joys and challenges of living with a disability.
Pro tips
Navigating the relationship between parents and caregivers
In their latest Roadmaps column, Rebekah Taussig and Hannah Soyer offer insight to a reader who relies on their parents for caregiver help and wants to forge some independence without damaging relationships.
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