Reeve Foundation Paralysis Community

Manchester, NH lawyer Ron Abramson will join three other Team Reeve members attempting to run two full marathons on opposite coasts within six days to raise funds for the Foundation.As part of the “Boston 2 Big Sur” challenge, Abramson will tackle the...

Having been classmates and friends since the 1980s, Danny Heumann and Alan T. Brown share a unique story that has now brought them together again as members of the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Board of Directors. Danny was paralyzed...

Dana Reeve would have been 49 today (March 17th). There are a lot of folks still here at the Foundation that worked with her, and I mean worked. She envisioned and implemented what is our Quality of Life program, born out of her first hand knowledge of...

We wrote a story awhile back about a young lady, Nicole Marquez (pictured), who was in New York City following her dream of becoming a professional dancer, when she was paralyzed from a fall. Read that story, You Can't Stop This Dancer, here.We see now...

Dr. Dan Gottlieb is in our community every Tuesday offering his advice as a family psychologist and answering questions. He also has a new book coming out: The Wisdom of Sam: Observations on Life from an Uncommon Child. I was lucky enough to get an advance...

It's still early, but in sledge hockey at the Vancouver Paralympics, it is looking like a USA - Canada final. That would be fun. Canada and the USA are also on top of the wheelchair curling standings. Our new friend and only woman on the US curling team,...

This from Monday's Washington Post: One year after President Obama announced he was lifting his predecessor's controversial restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, some scientists are complaining that so far the new...

Thursday, March 18th, the Foundation is hosting an evening with our President and CEO Peter Wilderotter and Executive Vice President of Research, Susan Howley. Ms. Howley is nationally recognized for her leadership in the field of spinal cord research...

A recent paper in the journal Nature Medicine sheds some important new light on the underlying mechanisms of spasticity that often develops after a spinal cord injury. Involuntary contractions of muscles, or spasticity, can have potentially serious consequences,...

With a name like King Cannon (pictured), this guy is going to be a star! He participates in the Artistic Realization Technologies program in Jacksonville, FL. A.R.T. is based in New Jersey, but will travel. They give people with disabilities the opportunity...

This is for a pilot with Paul Reiser. It's very cool because you can do it all online. You make a demo tape and upload it to their site. They are looking for ZEKE : ...

We are trying to put together a list of the top 10 things that annoy people in wheelchairs. We may even have a vote. The purpose is to make people more aware. Go here. Leave your list. See what others wrote. Don't feel like you have to contribute...

I've have written about Elle here a lot. (I looked it up, nine entries since October 2009.) She is now a high school sophomore and is back out on the track, racing in her wheelchair.Last year, some of the schools in her league did not want to recognize...

Sorry for the late notice on this. The deadline is this Friday, March 12th. VSA is an international nonprofit organization founded 35 years ago by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to create a society where people with disabilities learn through, participate...

The Paralympics start on Friday. Last week I mentioned that we had gotten to know one of the curling team members, the only woman as a matter of fact -- Jacqui Kapinowski. Four months to the day after she began learning the sport of curling, Jacqui...

We are welcoming actor/writer Danny Arroyo to our extended family as a Reeve Foundation ambassador. Arroyo, who won a “Best Actor” award at a film festival for his work in the indie drama, ''Chimera House,'' joins several Hollywood talents, including...

Brian Jacobson was injured six year age in a skiing accident in which he fractured his C2 vertebrae. Brian tells us he has limited movement in his arms and legs. He can stand and walk for very short distances with a walker and someone to spot him. And...

This Saturday (March 6th) will mark the four year anniversary of Dana Reeve's death. I never had the privilege of meeting here, but I'm told our tagline, "Today's Care. Tomorrow's Cure." is Christopher and Dana. He was cure and she was all about care....

One of my favorite questions? Are you guys on Facebook? We are, and growing by leaps and bounds. You'll meet a lot of great people there. We have a separate pages for the Paralysis Resource Center and Team Reeve. We are Tweeting too, useful ones, not...

We got an email for a guy who wants to start a local chapter of the Reeve Foundation. His name is Chris "Superman" Williams. He says that Christopher was always a hero of his and sent this picture of the hood of his truck to prove it!RobPS: Remember the...

A new research paper in the Journal of Neuroscience highlights work by scientists who have successfully reconstructed 3-D hand motions from brain signals recorded in a non-invasive way. According the press release, "This finding uses a technique that...

This is the first of many "road shows" we are holding:The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation will be hosting an evening with our President and CEO Peter Wilderotter and Susan Howley, Executive Vice President of Research (pictured). Ms. Howley...

Janelle, our online writer had a conversation the other day with one of Team U.S.A.'s  wheelchair curling Paralympians. (I did need to take a moment and explain to her that, No curling is not what weightlifters do with dumbbells, but rather it involves...

Sent to me last week by Saralee Perel (pictured with her husband before her injury):It has taken me seven years to consciously relive the events of January 22nd, 2003. I was fifty-two. It's not that I've developed courage to face what happened. I relive...

If you know anyone who is a caregiver, this is important to you. On behalf of our nation’s family caregivers, we urge you to join us in asking the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health & Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies...