PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Imagine having to depend on an unreliable wheelchair to get around. It's a problem Howard Mattson, who suffers from a rare muscle disease, has been battling for a long time. He ...

Brian Mattson’s mom is 93. The Agoura Hills resident wrote to On the Spot to talk about a less-than-satisfactory experience his mother had with getting special assistance at LAX. She’s mobile, but she ...

Growing up, Pamela Daly was a dancer, but a tragic car crash changed her life forever. “I broke my back,” Pamela says. She now relies on a specialized wheelchair to get around. “I’ve been paralyzed ...

As the Allegiant airline employee pushed Valerie Roberts down the ramp to her airplane at the Clearwater, Fla., airport May 3, she reminded the man to take good care of her property. “I said to him: ...

Fraud schemes involving power wheelchairs have exposed Medicare's fat and vulnerable underbelly, according to an article in The Washington Post. "Since 1999, Medicare has spent $8.2 billion to procure ...

Benjamin Hubert, a highly acclaimed industrial designer based in London is ready to showcase one of its greatest innovation. Benjamin and his enterprise “Layer “would debut their first functional ...

As Randy Skendzel’s multiple sclerosis progressed, his old motorized wheelchair became obsolete. Over time, the 58-year-old Bridgeport neighborhood resident lost function in his arms and legs, making ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Every time the pavement changes, even just a slight incline, Caleb Huffstutter’s wheelchair freezes. “It just stops me dead in my tracks,” Huffstutter said as he tried to roll into ...

Pamela Daly was on vacation in New York City, when she paused to look up and admire the skyline. Suddenly, the whole world started tilting to the left. “I actually thought maybe we were having an ...

A model and disability advocate called out Delta for breaking her wheelchair in transit. Bri Scalesse said the chair was irreparably damaged en route from St Paul to Newark on July 4. Airlines damage ...

Aurorah Arndt was a sophomore at Wellesley College when everything in her life changed. “I was literally training for ultramarathons, and then, one fine day, I woke up and I couldn't sit up without ...

Researchers out of Japan’s Chiba Institute of Technology have developed a robotic wheelchair that can cruise along paved surfaces and easily climb stairs. Researchers have developed a wheelchair ...