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Coming to terms with a life sentence
In 1995, 20-year-old Travis Roy was making his debut for the Boston College ice hockey team when 11 seconds into his collegiate career he mistimed a hit on an opponent and slammed hard into the boards,...
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Senior aims to raise awareness about spinal cord injuries
Helped by the Physically Challenged Athletes Scholarship Fund, Jennifer Bou Lahoud targets a career in neuroscience Jennifer Bou Lahoud walks confidently, with purpose, in front of her USC Dornsife...
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Living ‘an Active Life with Inactive Feet’ After Spinal Cord Injury
A cautioning inspirational quote—Expect Nothing. Be ready for anything.—might be wise words to live by, but with a spinal cord injury, nothing like it is even on your radar screen, and it’s virtually...
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Quadriplegic savors what others take for granted
Making the most of every moment It will be 10 years this November since Justin Cochran attempted to entertain his family with a back handspring on a golf course and almost died. The young man, who was...
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Disabled woman helps inspire others
Sabrina Cohen uses the tragedy that left her paralyzed to help others in need. Visit SabrinaCohenFoundation.org
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Attitude can play significant role in recovery from paralyzing injury
The news was the kind commonly termed tragic, yet the communication from Amy Van Dyken-Rouen’s hospital room in Arizona saturated the social media universe with positive vibes. The former Olympic...
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How one man’s spinal cord injury is still healing 24 years later
“I remember hitting the bottom, being face down, and my entire body getting a tingling feeling like when your foot falls asleep. It was then that I knew I broke my neck. I couldn’t move, not even to...
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Young man introduces extreme sport to skate park
Spinal cord injury isn’t stopping one skater BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – A car crash last summer left 19-year-old Blake Simpson with a spinal injury and forced to use a wheelchair to get around. After his...
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Zina Hermez – My book, Not Without God: A Story of Survival has been published!
What started out a dream has now become reality. I began writing Not Without God a couple of years ago, and I wrote sporadically in the beginning. As both of my parents battled serious illnesses I...
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The Need for Speed: Quadriplegic race car driver defies conventions
Chris Hrabik’s blue-green Subaru Impreza doesn’t have the brooding menace of a muscle car. It’s dusty and plastered with sponsors’ decals. Parked behind his stand at the Cape Girardeau craft market,...
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Injured as undergrad, college teacher learns to cope
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Pensacola, Fla., is more than 1,100 miles from St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn., but Robert Bell found himself feeling right at home as soon as he visited the Minnesota...
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Paralyzed since ’89, Bob Bell still seeks challenges
Adventurer Bob Bell won’t let paralysis keep him from living his life. Bob Bell is a funny, smart, inquisitive, witty guy. The kind of fellow that any guy would love to add to his real world friends...
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Paralyzed Artist Creates Works That Reflect Shooting That Injured Her
LINCOLN PARK — Mariam Paré paints by loosely holding her paintbrush between her molars. Paré is paralyzed, the victim of random gun violence that left her unable to walk, and with limited use of her...
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Spinal cord injuries, C3-C4 lesion
A chat with Chris in relation to spinal cord injuries.
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Amy Van Dyken-Rouen: The Next Adventure
An Olympic athlete and CSU alumna, Amy Van Dyken-Roeun, has recently undergone a new adventure in her life. Van Dyken-Rouen was involved in an ATV accident on June 6, 2014 leaving her paralyzed from...
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The life Steve Klemz knew changed 40 years ago
The dreams always return in October, just before the anniversary. They’re vivid. They’re graphic. They’re always the same. Steve Klemz is 17 again. He’s playing football. He’s playing hockey. He’s...
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Quadriplegic’s inner strength wins over long lost high school crush
This one came to me as a story of a man who creates remarkable works of art with pen and camera despite being a quadriplegic with only minimal use of his right arm. It turned out to be far more than...
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A brave mother’s battle to walk again after she awoke from back surgery as a...
Panic instantly set in when Sarah-Jane Staszak woke up in her hospital bed and found she couldn’t move. The 40-year-old mother from Blackheath in Sydney’s Blue Mountains had gone to the Royal North...
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Wheelchair no handicap for Mets fan calendar model Amanda Perla
Twenty-five-year-old Perla, who broke her neck in a car accident seven years ago, was the top vote getter among the 100 or so entries to appear in ‘The 7 Line’ calendar,’ an annual promotional pinup...
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Paralyzed aerialist vows to one day walk and fly again
SACRAMENTO, CA – Tresa Honaker has adapted to life’s changes with an unwavering resolve and trust. “It’s the hardest work I’ve ever done in my life,” Honaker said. Honaker, a lifelong dancer,...
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