Disability is as much a state of mind as it is physical. If your spirit is high and you feel more positive than not, you’ll deal with the physical elements of a disability more easily.

While there are a lot of challenges in the world of disability - a lot of ways to bring you down - there is also a good deal of support out there that can help to keep you involved in sports, hobbies and life in general, despite any restrictions that a disability might bring.

One example of this is one of the USA’s top disability advocate and mobility aid supply companies - Living Spinal.

With nearly 40,000 customers in its 10-year history, Living Spinal introduces people with disabilities to a wealth of technical and mechanical know-how that makes disability easier to handle.

Following a diagnosis or because of trauma, it is often hard for a person to see a way out of their predicament. Indeed, it takes (on average) about a year post-event for someone to be willing and able to reach out to see what might be out there to help them.

This is where Living Spinal comes in. Owned and managed by disabled people, the company’s advisors are experts in mobility and the wealth of aids that can help positively impact it.

Take Ryan Russell from Arizona. Six years ago, he was involved in a car crash that ultimately left him paraplegic. In an instant, he was taken from being a normal, healthy guy to the prospect of life in a wheelchair.

Ryan spent a year in rehab learning how to use a wheelchair and exercising his upper body as well as of learning to focus his mind, so that he could begin his return to life journey.

Upon leaving hospital, he was introduced to Living Spinal and over the course of a few phone calls and a ton of advice and input, Ryan chose, as a supplement to his existing wheelchair – the front of chair attachment “Firefly”.

His life changed immediately.

An easy to clamp-on motor and handlebar-type product, the Firefly not only looks cool but also takes the strain out of the regular “pushing” of a wheelchair enabling users to go pretty much wherever they want, tackling different terrains with ease.

Five years later, with some maintenance and little care – Ryan is still using the very same unit.

Ryan uses it for every outside journey he makes. Indeed, he recently returned from “Camp With A Ramp” - a unique annual weekend away for disabled people - some with their care-givers and even their families - who head to Northern Arizona and spend a long weekend socialising with their peers, learning from advocates and experts in lectures and talks and getting out there in Mother Nature to swim, take part in (wheelchair) trailing, archery, fishing and a whole host of other activities normally out of reach to most disabled people.

Camp With a Ramp is run by volunteers and funded by donations and, as Ryan says:

“There needs to be more weekends like this. In more places and more frequently. People who are not only restricted by disability but who are also limited to the great outdoors because they live in cities and towns become happier at Camp. They see more. They exercise more. They meet lots of people who have similar issues to themselves which means that they suddenly don’t see themselves as so isolated and alone.”

For Ryan and the millions of other disabled people in America and, of course, around the world, greater mobility and increased independence is essential for a quality of life they would be otherwise missing.

If you are one of those people, contact Living Spinal and speak to their team of experts just as soon as you can via LivingSpinal.Com

It could be life changing.

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For more on Living Spinal go to: Livingspinal.com.

For more on “Camp with a Ramp” go to: Campwitharamp.org.

For more on the FireFly go to: https://bit.ly/3SxwrI6

Media contact: Kevin Fetterplace: KFetterplace1@Gmail.com