To Boldly Go

Historically, it’s not easy to be first — the first one to point a ship toward a
place on maps labeled Here be dragons, or the first to suggest that the
earth might circle the sun instead of vice versa. Exploration is filled with
very real dangers, whether it’s the bodily risk of sailing off the edge of the
world or the chance you’ll be laughed at by peers.

Thank goodness there have been and are adventurers with stout hearts
and (no pun intended) thick skin. Thank goodness so many of them work in
mobility today.

For this issue, for instance,
we talked with Chuck
Hardy of the National
Mobility Equipment Dealers
Association (NMEDA) about
how dynamic seating
survey (page 14), which examined clinician and ATP use of this emerging
technology.

And we sat in on a tremendous conversation featuring some of the most
distinguished minds currently studying pressure injuries. The resulting Featuring the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Zanda Health.

Carbon 3D-Printing Patent Upheld by European Patent Office
The company’s technology is being used to create customized wheelchair cushions, among other healthcare and consumer products.

Commentary: The Terrible Cost of Keeping People Apart
Disability rights are human rights — and we’re on a slippery slope.

Texas v. Kennedy: Court Removes Community Integration Provisions from HHS Regulations
The district court decision follows June’s Department of Justice notice that called the Olmstead decision “not enforceable.”

Carbon 3D-Printing Patent Upheld by European Patent Office The company’s technology is being used to create customized wheelchair cushions, among other healthcare and consumer products.

Commentary: The Terrible Cost of Keeping People Apart Disability rights are human rights — and we’re on a slippery slope.

Texas v. Kennedy: Court Removes Community Integration Provisions from HHS Regulations The district court decision follows June’s Department of Justice notice that called the Olmstead decision “not enforceable.”

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Carbon 3D-Printing Patent Upheld by European Patent Office
The company’s technology is being used to create customized wheelchair cushions, among other healthcare and consumer products.

Commentary: The Terrible Cost of Keeping People Apart
Disability rights are human rights — and we’re on a slippery slope.

Texas v. Kennedy: Court Removes Community Integration Provisions from HHS Regulations
The district court decision follows June’s Department of Justice notice that called the Olmstead decision “not enforceable.”