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Father Pushes His Musically Gifted Son’s Wheelchair In The University Of Louisville’s Marching Band.
Patrick Henry Hughes is blind but plays in the University of Louisville pep band thanks to the lengths his father will go to help his son.
Canadian Man Invents Boat for Wheelchair Canoeing
Jon Pimlott is blessed with a wife, two beautiful kids, a job and a healthy body ready for life. He's also got the persistence...
‘Backwards Bill’ Runs NYC Marathon in Wheelchair to Show Disabled Kids How to Stay Active
Every one of the more than 45,000 runners expected to finish the 2013 ING New York City Marathon on November 3 brings to the...
Boy Finally Gets Autograph Then Gives it to Boy In Wheelchair
Kanye Ortiz loves the football players on the Houston Texan team, so his family showed up at their practice field to try to get...
Standing Ovation: Wheelchair-bound University Student Walks Across Stage at Graduation
The University of Portland gave a standing ovation this month to one of their own, Sam Bridgman, a finance major who was forced into...
Boy is Freed From his Wheelchair by Magic of Photography
Twelve-year-old Luka suffers from muscular dystrophy - a cruel degenerative disease which confines him to a wheelchair and will make him weaker and weaker...
College Basketball Star Saves Wheelchair-using Fan From Crowd
North Carolina State may have upset top-ranked Duke over the weekend, but the real play of the game came after the victory when Wolfpack...
Paralyzed Girl Succeeds in Getting Out of Wheelchair
Vanessa Cantu considers herself an incredibly optimistic person. When she was a freshman in high school she was involved in a serious car accident....
This Amazing Device Just Made Wheelchairs Obsolete for Paraplegics
The young man in this video looks like he's riding a Segway. But Yusuf Akturkoglu was paralyzed after falling from a horse five years ago,...
College Football Player Now in Wheelchair Finds New Joy in the Game (Video)
A Rutgers football player, now confined to a wheelchair, hasn't let his devastating injury slow him down.
Defensive tackle Eric LeGrand, who suffered a serious...
Disabled Man Gives Free Wheelchairs, New Lives to Rural Mexicans
According to Richard St. Denis, an estimated 75,000 wheelchairs are thrown away in the U.S. every year. For people with disabilities in Mexico --...
Man, 73, Rides 3 Miles in Wheelchair to Aid Sister
A 73-year-old Oregon man traveled three miles in his wheelchair before hunters found him and helped rescue his 61-year-sister after their car got stuck...
Wheelchair Adventurer Travels Where No Chair has Ever Been (w/ Video)
At the age of 29, Andrew Shelley sat stuck in the same predictable 9 to 5 job as his father. Looking back on his...
Elementary Kids Raise Thousands for Wheelchairs, Instead of Selves
From doing extra chores to collecting from the Tooth Fairy, elementary students spent the last month fundraising, as a sort of New Year's resolution...
Man Gives Quarter Million Homemade Wheelchairs to Needy Around the World
Don Schoendorfer creates makeshift wheelchairs for the disabled around the world. They cost him less than $49, but he has given away a quarter...
Wheelchairs Keep Disabled Pets Moving
This is a really sweet story about how tiny--or not so tiny--wheelchairs are giving disabled pets a new lease (or should that be 'leash'?)...
Disabled Iraqi Children Get Wheelchairs
A private contractor in Iraq noticed a need. Now prisoners in South Dakota are building -- and the US military is delivering --...
Thoughts Can Move This Wheelchair
Technology now exists, thanks to engineers at Ambient Corporation and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, that allows paraplegics to motor their chairs with their...
Segways Replace Wheelchairs, Increase Mobility
Segways, the two-wheeled transporters, are replacing wheelchairs for some who have trouble walking but still want to move around taking up as little space...
Good News in History, April 19
Happy 37th birthday to the Tennis ace Maria Sharapova, the only Russian, and one of only 10 women to have won the Career Grand...