After a diving accident left Jason DiSanto paralyzed from the neck down in 2009, he had to learn how to navigate life from a powered wheelchair, which he controls with a sip-and-puff system. Users sip ...

For patients who no longer have the use of their limbs and torso, life must be navigated through a powered wheelchair – which users often control by blowing into a plastic straw to execute basic ...

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Most people who are quadriplegics use sip-and-puff wheelchairs; they blow or suck into a straw to direct their chairs. But movement is limited to left, right, forward, and backward. New technology ...

Jason DiSanto of Marietta was paralyzed 4 1/2 years ago after a diving accident in a backyard pool. Not long after he started rehab at the Shepherd Center, he signed up for trials of a ...

After a diving accident left Jason Disanto paralyzed from the neck down in 2009, he had to learn how to navigate life from a powered wheelchair, which he controls with a sip-and-puff system. Users sip ...

Accident victim Jason DiSanto is helping develop the new chair with the Georgia Institute of Technology It uses a headset and a magnet embedded in the user%27s tongue ...

Jake Veltman of Michigan has been paralyzed from the neck down since a 2005 car accident but he is still able to hunt. Veltman uses a method called Sip and Puff that allows people with disabilities to ...

Adaptive, sensor-laden garments could provide a new way for quadriplegics to control their wheelchairs. The system, which is still in an early stage of development, identifies the ideal set of ...