Freedom Alliance, a military nonprofit, presented U.S. Navy Petty Officer First Class Jerry Padgett with a new all-terrain ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- A wheelchair designed at MIT is being heralded as the "mountain bike of wheelchairs." It's called the Freedom Chair and is the creation of a group of former MIT students, made right ...

BOSTON (CBS) – Dianne Vitkus' life changed in an instant last July. The 28-year-old surgical physician's assistant had just taken in a sunset on the roof of her apartment in New York state. She was ...

The wheelchair provides invaluable mobility to those with disabilities, but there are countless places where it can't go. Trails, parks, beaches, woods … without a paved road or structured pathway, ...

SHEFFIELD — For those who can’t go into the woods without help, Sheffield has a solution. With a state grant, the town bought a “GRIT Freedom Chair” that can be borrowed from the Bushnell-Sage Library ...

Known as GRIT, it makes wheelchairs designed to navigate rough terrain. The Freedom Chair comes in two models, one designed for developing countries, which sells for $250, and another for the US ...

On an early October morning when the air is as crisp as a just-picked apple, Nate Johnson rolls his power wheelchair down the ramp extending from his family’s minivan, gets a boost into a walker, and ...

CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) - A specialized wheelchair, that works like a tank, is giving injured veterans the freedom to roam. One of the chairs was donated to Wes Perkins, who's an Operation Iraqi Freedom ...