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Any Power Wheelchair User Can Go BOWLING and Play Power Soccer.

By Vincent A. Tifer
Chairman, Board of Directors MGT

With the IKAN BOWLER and IKAN SOCCER GUARD all POWER WHEELCHAIR USERS can go WHEELCHAIR BOWLING and play WHEELCHAIR POWER SOCCER. Including people with Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy, Spina Bifida, Quadriplegia, Spinal Cord Injuries, Multiple Sclerosis and other power wheelchair users...

Wheelchair Bowling

August in the college town of Gainesville, Florida is a time when you find the few and the hard core still hanging around off campus, waiting for another semester to begin and more friends to return. For Bill Miller and his roommates Rob Harrison and Ernie Barnett, it was a carefree time, filled with workouts, cookouts, girls, sports, beer and take out.
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Bowling, bonding
Paralyzed father takes son to hospital event

Rocky Mountain News
By Rosa Ramirez

Ron Gulick, 35, uses an IKAN, a device attached to his wheelchair, to compete in a bowling tournament. Gulick scored 100 points as his son, Jack, cheered him on.

The weekend before Ron Gulick's truck rolled over during a hunting trip, he threw a bowling bash for his son Jack as an early birthday present. The boy was turning 5 and Gulick wanted to host an activity they would both enjoy. Read Full Article


Inspired Invention

SPINAL COLUMN
The Magazine of Shepherd Center
Winter 2007
Dan Sadowsky

"We’re on a mission to get wheelchair users back in the game of life!"

Bill Miller and Bruce Howerton don’t know each other, but they share a lot in common. Both suffered life-altering accidents. Both are now quadriplegics. And both have invented products to help keep them active in their wheelchairs. In the process, they’ve helped improve the quality of life for others with spinal cord injuries. “To me it’s not about inventing things,” says Miller. “It’s about overcoming obstacles.” Read Full Article


Rolling to strikes
Disabled bowler knocks down pins — raises score and awareness

By Phil Sandoval
Free Press Sports Editor
February 14, 2007

Jon Musgrave releases the ball during a recent practice at GJ Scores. Musgrave practices five times a week for three hours daily and competes in a weekly league.

Jon Musgrave angers other bowlers.
That’s not his intention when he wheels his way up the GJ Scores alleys. It’s just that the wheelchair-bound Musgrave usually outscores most able-bodied bowlers who happen be in the next lane. Read Full Article


Article seen in International Bowling Industry Magazine/June 2006

Tournament winner Doug Sinclair wIth Cindy Shock, regIstered nurse on staff at Craig.

Fifty bowlers, caddies and spectators turned out at Belleview Lanes in Englewood, Colorado recently for a tournament using IKAN Bowler®, a ramp-based assistance device designed and manufactured by MGT Corp. of Brandon, Florida. Read Full Article


The Villages Daily Sun
The Villages, Florida
2-6-2006

IKAN Bowler® allows those suffering from spinal cord injuries to hit the lanes
By ELISHA PAPPACODA, DAILY SUN

Marguerite Sharp, right, places the bowling ball on the Ikan Bowler® of Bill Miller's wheelchair as he prepares to bowl a strike at the Spanish Springs Lanes in The Villages. George Horsford / Daily Sun

 

THE VILLAGES — Bill Miller glides down the waxed lanes of Spanish Springs

Lanes bowling center and carefully lines up his shot before pausing at the foul line. He releases the ball, which rolls slowly, but steadily, toward its 10 targets. As it smashes the pins, a single one remains standing. Read Full Article

 


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