EXOSYM + CEREBRAL PALSY WATCH HERE! Today is the last day of #cerebralpalsyawareness month & i didn’t even plan on having this video ready in time–how perfect! i hope you find this video useful, i had a lot of fun making it for you all! please feel free to share & tag your CP peeps! Below are … [Read more…]
Hi All, I’ve been meaning to get this up on the blog! A few weeks ago, I had the wonderful opportunity to talk with Gale Straub, podcaster and founder of She Explores , an amazing online community and resource that highlights the experiences of women in the outdoors. We talked about everything from being identical twins, … [Read more…]
Lately, I’ve often felt uninspired to write here because I seem to be on my computer and phone every day for graduate coursework & I am burnt out on screen time! I am sure many of you can relate, so I hope you don’t hold it against me. For what it’s worth, I love how … [Read more…]
World CP Day is almost here! Friday, October 6th 2017 worldwide founded & beginning in Sydney Australia! World CP Day can be a very personal or public thing, it is up to you! For me, it is an opportunity to recognize what I have overcome, what I have achieved, and how I have grown because … [Read more…]
Some days, it’s like I’ve just gone down under a really big wave, but I didn’t go down deep enough…. instead of the smooth quiet break above me, I am tossed around; gasping for air! only to be spit out by aftermath of the wave that just was. Of the day that just was. My … [Read more…]
I wrote this about a year ago for a friend but I think that now is the perfect time to publish it! This was also pre-exosym so I want you to know that you can still take on athletics without special aid, I did for many years! This week, I am gradually getting back into the gym … [Read more…]
I have been traveling in South America since January 2nd, 2017 with my boyfriend who was crazy enough to think up this adventure. He had already driven thousands of miles through Mexico and Central America by the time I joined, so he knew most of what we were in for luckily, for me. In his … [Read more…]
Phase Three: Becoming Bionic Days four and five of my first week in the device were kind of a blur in the sense that my dad had left to go back to work and I was left to decipher all of this on my own. I began to worry about the idea of taking on … [Read more…]
“The carbon-fiber ExoSym brace(s) consist of a plate customized to the shape of the foot and two struts leading up the back of the calf, connecting to a support holster below the knee. As you step down, the brace redirects weight and energy away from the joints and stores it in the carbon fiber, kind … [Read more…]