Posted in Adaptive Sports, spinal cord injury on Jan 23rd, 2012
by Beth Redford After a few days, I have recovered from playing in the recent Grand Rapids Wheelchair Sports Association (GRWSA) Tennis Fundraising Tournament at Ramblewood in Grand Rapids. The weekend started with picking up three cases of tennis balls for tournament director and wheelchair tennis head coach, Lynn Bender, and delivering them to Ramblewood. [...]
Posted in Adaptive Sports, Amputee, Mary Free Bed Orthotics & Prosthetics, Orthotics and Prosthetics, Patient Stories, Pediatric Rehabilitation, Rehab Technology Center on Jul 9th, 2011
by Mary Free Bed writer, Kate Snider Jess Sporte, 23, lost her leg to cancer when she was just 4 months old. Jess uses crutches for short distances and a wheelchair for longer distances. To help her live with a limb difference, Jess was an outpatient at the Center for Limb Differences at Mary Free Bed [...]
Posted in Adaptive Sports, Amputee, Mary Free Bed Orthotics & Prosthetics, Prosthetics on Jun 30th, 2011
by Kate Snider, Mary Free Bed writer Dennis Vandereist wasn’t wearing a seatbelt when he was in a car accident and was thrown out of his vehicle in July 2002. After another vehicle hit his, Dennis’s car hit a fire hydrant and rolled. Even though Dennis was thrown out of the vehicle, his left leg was pinned [...]
Posted in Adaptive Sports, Amputee, Mary Free Bed Orthotics & Prosthetics, Orthotics and Prosthetics, Patient Stories, Prosthetics, Support Group on Jun 9th, 2011
by Mary Free Bed writer, Kate Snider Melanie Johnson was just 5 miles from home when she was struck by a drunk driver. She was riding her motorcycle to her nephew’s football game in September 2004. “I knew it was really bad when I heard the helicopter. I remember thinking, if they had to call [...]
Posted in Adaptive Sports, spinal cord injury on May 26th, 2011
by Linda Truong, Mary Free Bed writer “Once something like this happens to you, you don’t know what to do or what’s going to happen to you,” said Pat Besta, referring to the spinal cord injury he sustained in a car accident. Twenty years ago, after his vehicle landed in a ditch, Pat suffered artery damage [...]
Posted in Adaptive Sports, Pediatric Rehabilitation on May 18th, 2010
by Jess Venlet, Mary Free Bed writer I didn’t know what to expect when I arrived at Jenison High School to watch wheelchair basketball for the first time. I thought that the game would be pretty laid back. I couldn’t have been more wrong. The games were intense, and the players competitive. I realized my mistake [...]
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