Now a quadriplegic, he’s spent the last 35 years in a wheelchair and the last 27 speaking with the help of a tracheostomy tube. David was 5 years old when he was diagnosed with the disease.

Beth P., Quora Hilary Lister — who developed quadriplegia at 15 due to reflex sympathetic dystrophy — was the first person with quadriplegia to sail solo across the English Channel.

He even directed a movie, In the Gloaming, and starred in the television remake of Rear Window. Over on Quora, people with quadriplegia (a form of paralysis that affects all four limbs and the body ...

A suspect has finally been arrested for the rape of a quadriplegic woman during a home invasion more than 20 years ago. Michael Lamonte Evans, a 50-year-old man from Los Angeles, was charged with ...

A suspect has finally been arrested for the rape of a quadriplegic woman during a home invasion more than 20 years ago. Michael Lamonte Evans, a 50-year-old man from Los Angeles, was charged with ...

A California man has been arrested for raping a quadriplegic woman inside of her apartment 24 years after the abominable crime took place. Michael Lamonte Evans, 50, has been accused of breaking ...

Getty Images/iStock photo More than two decades after a quadriplegic woman was raped in her apartment, a man has been arrested and charged, California police say. The Contra Costa County District ...

Kevin Mills became paralysed on holiday when a rogue wave threw him to the sea floor. Almost 15 years on, he has regained some mobility by forcing himself to move. After getting a handcycle ...