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The following resources are the ones with which I am familiar.
Other resource sites certainly exist and I encourage you to explore them. If you are personally familiar with a resource(s) and website(s), please submit to me and I will incorporate it into this page.

Thank You,
Molly Hale

Assistive Technologies

Health Information

General

Spinal Cord Specific

Martial Arts

Therapies

Horse/Hippo Therapy

Movement Therapy

Water Therapy

Travel and Such

Miscellaneous Wonders

Graphics and Design

 

Assistive Technologies:

Able Data
Provides objective information about assistive technology products and rehabilitation equipment.

Active Forever
Medical Equipment, Supplies & Healthcare innovations

Assistive Tech
Developer of hardware and software solutions for people with physical, cognitive, and speech disabilities

Beneficial Designs
Improving access for people of all abilities.

Disabled Dealer Magazine
Bringing people with disabilities and the elderly complete access to new and pre-owned adaptive equipment, services, resources, and events.

Discovery Through Design
Honoring women’s lifestyles, creating awareness and raising funds for disabled women’s health initiatives and spinal cord injury research.

Independence Mobility System
The iBOT® Mobility System’s all-in-one combination of functions is unlike any wheelchair ever created.

Life on Wheels
Disability awareness resources from Gary Karp.

My Pleasure
Resource for education, information and sexual enhancement products for people who have various disabilities or health-related conditions that might otherwise limit their sexual functioning or satisfaction.

New Mobility Magazine
Magazine for active wheelchair users.

The Archimedes Project
Works to improve interaction with computers and information and control of their environment for people with disabilities, the elderly, people with limited literacy, and people who use computers and information appliances.

The YogaBack Company
The originator of Sacral-Lower Thoracic Support in office, laboratory, and motor vehicle seating with two unique products guaranteed to relieve your pain and improve your posture.

TiLite Wheelchairs
A superior class of manual wheelchairs, combining orthoses-like customization with the most advanced materials.

Yoga Superstore
Personal physical fitness supply needs

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Health Informatio

Health Information:
General
General:

Acupuncture Alliance

American Chiropractic Association

American Massage Therapy Association

American Occupational Therapy Association

American Physical Therapy Association

Andrew Weil, MD

Trusted health advisor; great information.

Breast Health Access for Women with Disabilities

Center for Research on Women with Disabilities

Christine Northrup, MD
Empowering approach to women’s health and wellness

Complimentary and Alternative Medicine Program

National Osteoporosis Foundation

Sutherland Massage Productions
For the past thirty years, Christine Sutherland has been teaching hands-on healing. Her first career as an audio visual specialist merged with her second career as a massage therapist. She produces visually and verbally accessible videos teaching massage techniques for birthing, palliative care, wheelchair users, pets and more. She also teaches massage in workshop formats.

Women’s Health U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Spinal Cord Injury Specific:

Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
Good group with online community.

National Spinal Cord Injury Association

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
The world's largest comprehensive spinal cord injury (SCI) research center.

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Martial Arts:

Aiki Extensions
Provides support and enhances communication among those who apply the principles of Aikido and practice in venues outside of conventional dojo settings.

Aikido at Noon
Jeramy's Menlo Park, CA. Dojo. Classes are offered by the City of Menlo Park.

Aikido Journal
Online Aikido information, world-wide.

Aikido Kids

Aikido West
My home dojo with instructor Frank Doran, 7th dan.

Bu Jin Design

California Aikido Association

National Women’s Martial Art Federation

Pacific Association of Women Martial Artists

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Therapies:

Horse/Hippo Therapy:

B.O.K. Ranch
Non-profit organization provides therapeutic horseback riding for clients with special needs. This is where I ride now.

American Hippotherapy Association
Promotes the use of the movement of the horse as a treatment strategy in physical, occupational and speech therapy sessions for people living with disabilities.

National Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy
Home of one of the largest hippotherapy programs in the United States and where I first began riding after injury.

North American Riding for the Handicapped Association
Promotes the benefit of the horse for individuals with and without physical, emotional and learning disabilities

Parelli Horsemanship
The Parelli method allows horse lovers at all levels and disciplines to achieve: success without force, partnership without dominance, teamwork without fear, willingness without intimidation, and harmony without coercion.


Movement Therapy:

Accessible Fitness
A fully wheelchair accessible gym for people with multiple sclerosis (MS), spinal cord injury or other limitations.

The Balance Center
Balance aligns your bones with gravity so that your muscles can be in maximum relaxation. Consulted for proper wheelchair posture and walking alignment when in water.

Continuum Movement
Increases vitality, health and healing. Provides a spacious sense of well-being. Develops core strength and flexible power. Revitalizes bones, joints, and skeletal health. Releases, relaxes and realigns.

The Feldenkrais Method
A way of working with the awareness of one's body to improve movement and enhance human functioning.

Feldenkrais Resources
One of the oldest and most active Feldenkrais training and somatic education organizations in the world.

Learning in Action
Sonja combines her expertise and training in Feldenkrais®, dance and aikido, along with her studies in somatic psychology and years of teaching children, adolescents, and mentally handicapped adults

Tai Chi Chair
Simple stretches you can do anywhere -- at your desk, on your couch, even in your car produced by my friend Cindy Mason.

Water Therapy:

Aquaticnet         
The one-stop aquatic therapy resource. An international clearinghouse of information on aquatic, aquatics, aquatic therapy, aquatic fitness.where you can search for a warm water pool in your area.

Aquatic Therapy and Rehab Institute
A non-profit educational organization dedicated to the professional development of healthcare professionals involved with aquatic therapy. Wonderful classes and people.

Betty Wright Swim Center
Provides high quality aquatic therapy and leisure opportunities that promote health and wellness, injury prevention, and active daily living. This is where I go 5 days a week.

Watsu        
Watsu is proving its effectiveness with chronic pain and a widening range of conditions. In addition to the physical benefits derived from the movements and stretches warm water facilitates, Watsu reduces stress.

Worldwide Aquatic Bodywork Association
Lists practitioners and classes in Watsu and the other major forms of Aquatic Bodywork.

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Travel and Such:

Accessible Events
Providing talent for non-profits to run successful events. This group facilitates fun and accessible comfort and skill in the sky, in and on the ocean and on the court. Check their site.

Environmental Travel Companions
Opens the beauty and challenge of outdoor adventures to people with special needs.

Flying Wheels Travel
A Full Service Travel Agency Specializing in Travel for Persons With Disabilities

Maui Accessible Condo
A wonderful wheelchair accessible beachfront condo at Maalaea in Maui, Hawaii where my husband and I stayed.

Society for Accessible Travel & Hospitality
A New York-based non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of accessibility in the travel & tourism industries. It raises awareness of the needs of all travelers with disabilities, remove physical and attitudinal barriers to free access and expand travel opportunities in the United States and abroad.

The Trail Center
A non-profit volunteer organization formed in 1983 to provide and promote quality non-motorized trail opportunities for all people in San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco counties.

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Miscellaneous Wonders:

Americans with Disabilities Act
Information and technical assistance.

Concentric Media
This is Dorothy Fadiman's film company. Dorothy and her husband Jim became our dear friends through the making of Moment By Moment. Dorothy is the filmmaker for Moment By Moment, as well as other equally engaging films.

National Center on Disability and Journalism
Educates to improve fairness, accuracy and diversity in news reporting about disability issues and people with disabilities.

Sisse Brimberg
Sisse and her husband Cotton Coulson are another couple who became our friends through the making of Moment By Moment. Sisse is the photographer who is responsible for the wonderful still photos on this site, as well as many of the photos you see in Moment By Moment. Click her name to read more about her amazing work as a National Geographic photographer and with her photographer husband, Cotton.

Graphics and Design:    

AfterMidnightInc.com  
Graphic designer with dynamic images and powerful words, galvanized with strategic thinking and relationship nurturing. Created DVD packaging for Moment by Moment.

srathbun.com
Graphic design and Creative services. Steve created this wonderful website and DVD projects for Ability Production.

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