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A colorful, award-winning lifestyle magazine, New Mobility encourages the integration of active wheelchair users into mainstream society with articles on health, advocacy, travel, employment, relationships, recreation, media, products and more. Ninety percent of its writers live with disabilities, creating a vibrant culture of disability journalism, philosophy and advocacy within each monthly edition. As the official publication of United Spinal Association, New Mobility advances the organization’s mission to improve quality of life of people with spinal cord injuries and disorders by highlighting member opportunities for further education, peer support and community involvement. Source
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| Scope | International |
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| Language | English |
| Country | United States of America |
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Search ArticlesSmall but Powerful: Permobil’s New Mid-Wheel Power Chair, the M4 Nexa
Power chair users of smaller stature who have been looking for a wheelchair that offers all the essential power seating features with a frame designed to fit them better have a new option: Permobil’s M4 Nexa. Permobil designed the M4 Nexa to deliver all the maneuverability and essential seating features found in its full-size Corpus line of power chairs in a new, compact build that works for all users, but especially those of smaller stature.
A High-Quad’s System for Good Health
(Editor’s Note: In the July Health Newsletter I wrote about some of the keys I’ve learned to staying healthy and fit as a low quad. For this newsletter, I asked longtime NM contributor Kenny Salvini to tackle the same topic from his perspective as a high quad.
New Mobility Newsletter - Sept 22, 2026
If you live with a high-level injury, you know the standard answers to low blood pressure: an abdominal binder, compression garments, a pill. ONWARD Medical’s ARC-IM takes a different route. A 16-electrode lead sits in the epidural space over a dense cluster of blood pressure neurons in the lower thoracic cord and stimulates it directly.
Nobody Asked for a Crab Chair
In our last installment of “Good Intentions Gone Wrong: When Disability Engineers Go Bad,” we highlighted a particularly egregious Swiss wheelchair design featuring superfluous drones. Thankfully, not all engineers who receive blank checks to design disability solutions are that out of touch. More commonly, the lack of constraints that comes with deep corporate pockets results in sexy, future-forward designs with tantalizing possibilities that somehow leave me feeling more empty than excited.
I Hate Flossing. I Tried Gfloss Anyway.
NM Editor-in-Chief Ian Ruder is an adamant non-flosser, but as a C5 quad, the thought of hands-free flossing had him intrigued. Flossing regularly is for suckers. All you floss-heads can fight me if you want, but there are few things grosser than flicking undigested pieces of food onto your bathroom mirror (even if it can be satisfying trying to figure out what they are). Give me a good toothbrush and some toothpaste and I’m good.
New Implant Targets Blood Pressure Swings After SCI
On the heels of establishing itself as a leader in SCI research with the successful launch of the first external electrical stimulation device cleared by the FDA for home use, ONWARD Medical is on the verge of cementing that status with an exciting new approach that could help millions of people living with spinal cord injuries say goodbye to abdominal binders, compression garments and costly medicines.
What’s New in SCI Research
We’re excited to turn the Health and Wellness newsletter over to its first guest editor, Matthew Rodreick, the executive director at Unite 2 Fight Paralysis (U2FP) and father to a son with SCI. U2FP is a grassroots advocacy organization working to unite the SCI community and accelerate therapies that restore function after SCI. A growing number of clinics are combining spinal stimulation with activity-based therapy to help restore function for people with spinal cord injuries.
Give Me the Tools to Live My Life, Not a System That Controls It
Maria Matzik relies on home and community based services to live independently. When people hear that I use a ventilator, tracheostomy, and wheelchair, they often assume I need to be taken care of. I do — but not in the way they think. I’m a 56-year-old adult. I own my home. I work as an education and advocacy specialist at a Center for Independent Living and have spent more than three decades advocating for people with disabilities, including over 10 years focused specifically on self-directed care.
New Mobility Newsletter - Aug 19, 2026
John Mohler has been talking to his computer since the ’90s. As a power wheelchair user with MS, a mouth stick and speech recognition were his preferred tools, which meant every work email, every private message was said out loud to whoever was in the room. Then he tried Augmental’s Mouthpad^, a touchpad you wear like a retainer that works with your tongue. Click the link for his review. Getting into the water from a dock is the easy part. Getting back out has never had a good answer.
Please Remain Seated: Hiking Chair
Wait! Before you wander off to other parts of the internet, please consider supporting New Mobility. For more than three decades, New Mobility has published groundbreaking content for active wheelchair users. We share practical advice from wheelchair users across the country, review life-changing technology and demand equity in healthcare, travel and all facets of life. But none of this is cheap, easy or profitable.