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Here is an opportunity you won’t want to miss! From July 22-24 in East Lansing, Michigan, workers with disabilities can test drive a heavy-equipment manlift and an all-terrain Action Track Wheelchair and learn about working on the job with arthritis. Michigan State University Ag Expo offers this great chance for heavy equipment operators with arthritis.
Mike Edighoffer has operated a lawn care and leaf collection business with one arm since 2002. He employs a full time helper during summer and fall when work is busiest. He owns a full line of modern and well maintained lawn care equipment including two joystick-controlled zero-turn mowers, backpack leaf blowers, line trimmers and a Trac-Vac leaf collection system. A full-size pickup truck and trailer are used to transport equipment to the 30+ job sites where work is done.
I had a long conversation with a young woman with bipolar disorder. She had been a highly trained and successful certified public accountant, climbing the corporate ladder. Now, she is living a secluded life in a large old farmhouse on a quiet road, wondering how she will pay her mortgage. She feels like a failure, but I assured her that she has great purpose and value regardless of her illnesses and struggle.
DisabilityWorkTools is committed to having professional staff in the field of assistive technology. Ned Stoller, the owner of DisabilityWorkTools is a certified Assistive Technology Professional through RESNA, and has a B.S. degree in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Purdue University.
“I’m fifty, and I want to work until I’m 80, can you help me set up for that?”
Flinging hammers. Smashing mugs. Hugging posts. Stomping pedals. Clenching teeth.
This could sound like a temper tantrum, but it’s not. This is a tradesman in his shop or on the work site getting the job done in spite of impaired grip strength. Sometimes…
Having a disability can be confusing. It is not as easy as replacing parts on a broken machine. Some disabling injuries are more straightforward. The injury happens, a new normal develops, and life goes on in a different direction with different tools in the toolbox. However, most disabling conditions are far more confusing. Abilities to work fluctuate from day to day (or even hour by hour). Today a medication works great, and tomorrow it may cause severe side affects that are more complicated than the condition being treated. No wonder it is such a challenge to work in spite of a disabling illness or injury!
Traverse City, Michigan is a beautiful place to visit, positioned at the base of the scenic Leelanau peninsula in the heart of cherry growing country. On May 31 you can join the 2014 Walk to Cure Arthritis and stroll along the beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline! It seems appropriate to take a walk in support of arthritis research, since research shows that moving the joints is one of the best treatments for arthritis. So what does this have to do with Karate Kid?
May is Arthritis month because arthritis has to be taken seriously. It’s America’s primary cause of disability and can be painful, debilitating and costly. Disability Work Tools and the Arthritis Foundation have parallel goals of improving daily life for people with arthritis. There are many ways to adapt tools and work methods for mechanics, welders and fabricators to do their work with less pain in spite of arthritic hands and arms.
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