Adaptive CrossFit – Building More than Muscle
January 20, 2019
When legendary CrossFit Games competitor and CrossFit Omaha co-owner Stacie Tovar agreed to help QLI build a high-intensity fitness program for men and women with disabilities, it was because of […]
Rifet Hasanbasic | The Image of Progress
October 30, 2018
Rifet Hasanbasic pulls on an elastic resistance band tied in a knot around the strut of a weight machine, his hands tethered to it at the wristbraces with carabiner clips. […]
Abraham Stubbs | Injury, Creativity, and the Path to Self-Reliance
August 21, 2018
“I’ve always believed you have to find ways to live the life you want to live. Not your parents’ life, not life under the influence of anyone else or anything […]
Chronic Pain – How to Fight a National Epidemic
May 19, 2018
Tom Petty. Prince. Heath Ledger. From world-renowned entertainers to blue-collar workers taking the edge off nagging aches and pains, nearly one in three people in the U.S. use prescription opioids. […]
A Family’s Journey with Brain Injury: An Interview with Dave and Kay Johnson
May 19, 2018
Dave and Kay Johnson endured enormous tragedy in late 2015. Their then-19-year-old daughter, Melissa, suffered a near-fatal traumatic brain injury after her truck collided with a tree. Dave and Kay […]
Anna Connors and the Way Back
May 18, 2018
Anna Connors survived a terrifying automobile accident involving her vehicle and a semi truck. She was left with a traumatic brain injury, which affected her life in countless ways. This […]
Hero’s Homecoming: The Journey of Officer Tom Wagstaff
May 6, 2018
How do you prepare for the day you lose everything? How do you react to it, reckon with it? How do you ever begin to rebuild? For Tom Wagstaff—a loyal […]
Step By Step | Kent Templien’s Story of Resilience
April 3, 2018
A devastating ATV accident left Kent Templien with a severe spinal cord injury. It also revealed incredible resolve and resilience.
Take The Throne | Seth Wannamaker’s Charge to the Top
February 18, 2018
It looks less like a wheelchair and more like the imagining of some brutal end-of-world steampunk fiction, all crisscrossing metal and scuffed aluminum. The wheels splay away from the seat […]
Change in the Face of Change | Koby Truesdells’s Brave Steps
January 17, 2018
“Change is inevitable. Why embrace it when you can make it happen?” We introduced Koby Truesdell last September, at the very beginning of his pilgrimage back to life following […]