By MARK FREEMAN
Mail Tribune 

All-terrain wheelchair bringing Medford man outdoors

 


MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Casey Moore's withered right hand pushes the small joystick that thrusts a special wheelchair down a TouVelle State Park trail, with the chair's tracks carrying him over rocks and thick grass.

"It feels like I'm driving a mini tank," Moore laughs.

He powers down a short embankment to experience something he hasn't since a diving accident 18 years ago left him paralyzed from the chest down, with limited use of his arms and hands.

Moore eases the chair into the Rogue River, whose water lapping against the chair is the closest he can come to enjoying the playground of hi...



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