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Murderball: This documentary is the wheel deal
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By HAP ERSTEIN - Palm Beach Post
It is relatively easy to make a film about people in wheelchairs and manipulate the viewer into feeling sorry for these poor, disabled souls.
 But that is the last thing the quadriplegics who play a violent, high-contact version of Rugby, nicknamed Murderball, would want. And it is hardly the movie that co-directors Dana Adam Shapiro and Henry Alex Rubin have made. Leave behind any misconceptions of these guys as frail wimps, for they will certainly be erased by this remarkable documentary about the members of the United States quad rugby team. Their bodies may be damaged, but their chosen form of rehabilitation is an indoor sport that is part football, part bumper cars.
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Wheelchair warriors
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 Quadriplegic rugby players say a new movie gets it right about the game - and about life in a chair
Damon Rozier thought his life was over eight years ago after he was sideswiped by a car while riding his motorcycle. The collision propelled Rozier's bike into the air. When it came down, it landed on top of him, snapping his neck in two places.
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ADA CELEBRATES 15 YEARS--An Important Message
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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law by former President George Herbert Walker Bush on July 26, 1990. As we celebrate the 15th anniversary of this landmark legislation, it is important to recognize the great strides that have been made for millions of Americans with disabilities.
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STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY ON 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES
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Fifteen years ago today, with bipartisan support in Congress and broad
endorsements from the civil rights coalition, President George H. W. Bush
signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), calling for the
"shameful wall of exclusion" to come tumbling down. As we mark this
significant anniversary, we celebrate improvements in access to polling
places and the secret ballot, government services and programs,
transportation, public places, communication and information technology.
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New Therapy for Paraplegia and Quadriplegia
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 GIGER MD Therapy is a unique therapy method
The damaged or functionally impaired CNS (central nervous system) is functionally reorganised in its activated network parts or in its basic structure through the relearning of lost frequency and phase coordination in the performance of coordinated rhythmical movement. In the case of severe CNS damage, the restoration of physiological functions is only possible when instructed learning takes place in an integrative, co-ordinated and efficient way.
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Americans with Disabilities Act
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Murderball: Take it Personally
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 by: Mark Johnson - Director of Advocacy at the Shepherd Center in Atlanta
I've seen Murderball 3 times. If you're old enough (it's rated R for some curse words and sexual content), I recommend you see it at least once. It provides the viewer with plenty of reality and touching moments. Intense rivalry, team work, relationships between family and friends, pain, fear of the unknown, insight, drama and true passion.
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Walker raising funds for spinal cord injuries
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By RONALD ZAJAC - Staff Writer
This is not the best time of year to be walking across the province, but Anne Vant Erve is a woman with a mission. "I'm lucky that I like the heat," the 22-year-old student from Fenelon Falls, near Lindsay, said Monday in a telephone interview from Kingston, where she is continuing a walk from Windsor to Ottawa that will take her through Brockville later this week.
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Wheelchair bike is star of show
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 Geoff Adams-Spink
BBC News website disability affairs correspondent A new British-made motorcycle for wheelchair users was the star of this year's Mobility Roadshow in the UK. The Conquest is based on BMW 850 or 1150 motorbikes which have been integrated into a racing car-type aluminium body shell.
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Actor Michael J. Fox urges Senate to support stem cell bill
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 Senate bill would to lift restrictions research
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Actor Michael J. Fox is pushing Congress hard to lift President Bush's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. "Embryonic stem cell research holds enormous promise," said Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, in remarks prepared for a Capitol Hill news conference on Wednesday. "More federal funding and more lines are needed or progress will stall."
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