Life on Wheels: The A to Z Guide to Living Fully with Mobility Issues (Demos Medical Publishing, 2009)

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Explore a variety of resources including books, articles, and publications to broaden personal perspectives and inspire creative approaches to living with a spinal cord injury.

Consumer magazines like New Mobility and Ability Magazine offer insights into leading an active lifestyle, covering topics ranging from disability access and rights to sexuality, employment, and new disability products. Special issues focusing on 'Wheels on Campus' provide valuable information for students with disabilities, addressing classroom accommodations, housing, extracurricular activities, and studying abroad.

Discover unique books tailored to spinal cord injury, providing detailed information on adapting motor vehicles, managing autonomic dysreflexia, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, enhancing safety and emergency preparedness, optimizing mobility at home and in the community, and improving communication with family and friends. Books addressing intimacy and relationship building after a spinal cord injury are also included.

Additionally, explore select medical journals and books highlighting the latest research and findings on spinal cord injury to stay informed about advancements in the field.

Life on Wheels: The A to Z Guide to Living Fully with Mobility Issues (Demos Medical Publishing, 2009) Disability awareness author and speaker Gary Karp provides a comprehensive guidebook for people with mobility disabilities – Life on Wheels. It’s written in an affirming tone that helps people pursue their true, full potential. Candid discussions and tips regarding rehabilitation, healthy disability, the experience of disability, wheelchair selection, intimacy and sex, spinal cord research, home access, and getting out their are presented in an easy to understand way with good humor and useful insight.