In 2010, I was a sophomore playing for the Norwood High School varsity hockey team. I had been called up from the JV team in December. We had a game against Weymouth on Saturday, January 23rd. It was a late afternoon game so all of the boys were excited to do something after the game. The plan was to go in, do our job, get the win and all hang out after. When the game started, we realized that we were pretty outmatched. 

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Kelsey Peterson and Madeline Brown were friends before they were documentarians and spinal cord injury (SCI) activists. As noted in a KBJR6 article about the two, they “have been spending their summers on Madeline Island for years." However, on July 4, 2012, Kelsey’s life was forever changed. As she told KBJR6, “I was partying and out really late and I went out to Long Island with some friends on their boat, and in an altered state of mind, forgot where I was and I dove into three feet of water.” It was ...

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The Bennifers and Brangelinas of the world pale in the adorableness of Team Buck, the nick name Lauren and Ryan Buck call themselves. And they really are a team, as the last nine years have melded them into a solid unit that can withstand anything, including paralysis and several failed attempts at In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). When Lauren and Ryan first met in 2005, Ryan was able-bodied. "We met at the local watering hole," says Lauren. The two are from Goodhue, Minnesota.

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Most couples who have gone through a SCI, as well as psychologists, often agree — if the couple was ironclad beforehand, then they have a stronger chance at making it through. Codi Darnell, a T11 para and the voice behind HelpCodiHeal.com, is a living example of this. Codi and her husband Ian have been together since they were in-love teens. They met in high school and live in Vancouver, British Columbia. "We met and started dating in high school 15 years ago and we were married June 17, 2006.

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Ever since he was a little kid, Todd loved to ride motocross. As he said during the interview, “I turned professional in the summer of 2012, but I’d been riding since I was, like, 6 years old.” Todd was actively racing all throughout high school, but held off on riding professionally until he graduated at the request of his parents. In 2012, he turned pro and spent a year getting to know the ropes and making connections. In 2013, he was hired onto a race team for the first time. In 2014, he signed on ...

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About 10 years ago, I had just turned 18, I had been dancing competitively for 11 years and was a month away from graduating high school when in a split second my life changed forever. On April 21, 2007 I was a passenger in a car accident that left me paralyzed from the chest down. I broke my neck and almost completely severed my spinal cord. I am now a C6 Incomplete Quadriplegic. So instead of walking at graduation and spending the summer with my friends, excited about the future, I spent the next 6 ...

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Keeping the scales of life in balance is a tough chore for anyone. I am a spousal caregiver for my husband who is a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic as a result of a spinal cord injury. His medical needs are complex, and meeting those needs on a daily basis requires an enormous amount of my time and energy. My husband and I are parents to our young daughter, and as I am the able-bodied parent, the hands-on parenting duties fall to me.

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David Hill is a huge Florida Gator football fan, a loving son, and an irrepressible optimist. He is also a survivor of a C4/C5 spinal cord injury (SCI) that left him a quadriplegic. Yet, despite losing the use of his arms and legs, he hasn’t given up. Every day, he maintains a routine to get as much exercise as he can with the help of both professional caretakers and his family.

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Mason Ellis shares videos and articles with the Spinal Cord Injury Community based on his experiences living as a complete C5, C6, C7 quadriplegic survivor. Mason was injured on January 19, 2015 in an automobile accident which also caused a traumatic brain injury. Since recovering, his goal has been to help other survivors with his videos and raise awareness among the able-bodied population.

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June 17, 2000, started out like any other normal Saturday. It was the beginning of summer break, between her junior and senior years of high school, and Dana was meeting her mom to get pictures taken for their theme park season passes. Dana was waiting at a red light behind five other cars when she took a quick glance into her rearview mirror. She had no way of knowing that what she saw was about to change the rest of her life.

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Joseph Groh, a spinal cord injury survivor with a dogged commitment to helping others, never thought he would transition from the two wheels of his bike to the four years of his wheelchair. Where many spinal cord injury survivors might see nothing but hopelessness and frustration, Joe has always treated his life-changing injury as just another new life path. The Joseph Groh Foundation, which Joe and his wife started just a few short months after Joe broke his neck, instructs catastrophic injury survivors ...

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