This new, wearable assistive tech controller that works using head and tongue movements may improve wheelchair management for patients with paralysis by enabling them to operate it, but also control other devices like computers and smartphones. The device is designed as a collab between the medical rehab firm Brooks Rehabilitation […]
A group of teens from Rhode Island worked together and built a shelter for a 5-year-old boy in a wheelchair after they discovered he often gets wet while waiting for the school bus on rainy days. The boy, Ryder Killam, from Bradford, Rhode Island, had to go earlier to the […]
In the late 80s, a 12-year-old boy fell into a coma and remained in this vegetative state for 12 years. Today, this boy is a 43-year-old man, Martin Pistorius, and he is no longer in a coma and is living a normal life. Even though he’s wheelchair-bound and uses a […]