Physical Disability

March of Dimes is a community-based rehabilitation and advocacy charity for people with physical disabilities. Its goal is to enhance the independence and community participation of people with physical disabilities every day through a wide range of programs and services across the province. Ontario March of Dimes provides programs and community services that improve accessibility for Canadians at home and work.

This A-Z guide for all you need to know about every aspect of living with mobility impairment. This unique book offers an initial road map to the lifelong, complex, and fascinating road of the disability experience. The book is full of practical advice, from wheelchair selection to intimacy, personal hygiene and accessibility issues.

This book provides the practical knowledge needed to cope with the life changes caused by lower limb amputation. It demystifies the medical process and technical jargon by using plain, easily understandable language. Topics covered include: causes of lower limb amputation, surgical techniques, rehabilitation, challenges faced by children and elderly people living with an amputation, exercising and sports with a lower limb prosthesis and more.

Set among the hardscrabble world of the Missouri Ozarks, sizzling with sarcasm and acerbic wit, author's memoir tells the story of surviving Polio and his journey from the iron lung to life in a wheelchair. Presley is no wheelchair hero, no inspiring figure preaching patience and gratitude. Prevented, literally, from taking that next step, he became cranky and crabby, anxious and alienated, a rolling responsibility crippled not just by polio but by anger and depression, “a crip all over, starting with the brain.” Slowly, however, despite the limitations of navigating in a world before the Americans with Disabilities Act, he builds an independent life.

The author, a reporter and a paraplegic since an auto accident at age nineteen, holds nothing back in this achingly honest, often hilarious chronicle filled with lively stories which defy physical, emotional and psychological obstacles of living and working from a wheelchair.

This overview of spinal cord injury and its treatment is an essential reading for all patients desiring a better quality of life and for family members and caregivers who need a better understanding of this condition and its effects. This informative book explains the anatomy of the spine, the results of injury and the treatment and management issues encountered during rehabilitation.