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Flipping Accessible: The People and Devices Tilting Pinball Toward Access

When I was an arcade rat in the 1980s, my idea of heaven looked just like what I discovered when I attended the 41st Annual Pinball Expo this October in Schaumburg, Illinois, outside of Chicago: a massive, pulsating convention hall lined with hundreds of pinball machines, manned by merry pinballers of all ages, colors and families. It was noisy; it was flashy; it was fun. Rol...

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Managing Pain After Spinal Cord Injury

Imagine the largest vessel you can carry. It’s full of water and you’re carrying it across a room. You move with great care, afraid that it will get loose on you, that it will get out of control. Chronic pain is like that. You don’t want to jiggle it. People who have it spend too much energy preserving a delicate status quo — avoiding t...

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DREZ: A Last Resort for Neuropathic Pain Gets a Little Less Risky 

Betty Garza started feeling “electric shock, pins and needles” in her legs about two months after she sustained a T12 spinal cord injury in 2007. As the neuropathic pain got progressively worse, she tried everything from pharmaceutical options like Lyrica, Gabapentin and strong opioids, to an internal spinal cord stimulator, and surgery to replace broken r...

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PAIN

This is an excerpt from a 1995 collection of stories on pain and spinal cord injury by New Mobility’s former editor, Barry Corbet. In that collection, Corbet also wrote about a newer option to relieve neuropathic pain, called Dorsal Root Entry Zone (DREZ) surgery. You can read Bob Vogel’s update, which outlines Corbet’s reporting on DREZ and shar...

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Wheelchair Accessible Chevy Traverse Gets a Major Update 

On Nov. 19 at the Country Music Awards, Chevrolet and BraunAbility debuted a new, improved version of their popular wheelchair conversion for the Chevrolet Traverse. The original accessible Traverse debuted in 2023 and found a large audience with wheelchair users looking for a more rugged accessible vehicle that wasn’t a minivan. Like the previous model, the new Tra...

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