Life on Wheels: The A to Z Guide to Living Fully with Mobility Issues

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There are 1.7 million regular wheelchair users in the United State.  Like anyone else, they work, marry, have children, travel, play sports, and are full members of their community.  Life on Wheels makes sure they take full advantage of every available opportunity.  It is the 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. Life on Wheels is primarily a guidebook for those with a mobility disability, offering practical information on how to:

• adapt your home
• choose a wheelchair
• explore your sexuality
• take care of your body
• and much more!

Life on Wheels is designed to help people make their adjustments sooner and more completely by explaining how one adapts to disability, and by addressing misconceptions that only delay the ability to adapt. This is the one book that everyone using a wheelchair and all those who share their lives with someone in a chair need!

Contents: Rehabilitation; Healthy Disability; The Experience of Disability; Wheelchair Selection; Access; Intimacy, Sex, and Babies; Spinal Cord Research; Getting Out There; Appendices, Resources, Index.

About the Author: Gary Karp is an internationally recognized public speaker, corporate trainer, author, and editor, and was just inducted into the Spinal Cord Injury Hall of Fame as a Disability Educator. His work with university students in physical and occupational therapy is sponsored by the Christopher & Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center.

He has been living — fully — with a T12 spinal cord injury since 1973 when he was injured in a fall from a tree at the age of eighteen.