Maddi Niebanck • July 24, 2025
July is Disability Pride Month. These days I celebrate Disability as a proud stroke survivor, but it hasn’t always been that way.
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Celebrating Disability Pride Month: A Conversation with Dr. Barry Singer on MS, Inclusion, and Innovation
Moving with MS - One MS Warrior's Journey Empowering Others to Move
Maddi Niebanck • July 7, 2025
Living with rheumatoid arthritis, epilepsy, vision loss from optic neuritis, and a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) that once completely paralyzed her left side, Kathy Chester continues to...
Navigating Air Travel Post-Stroke with the Cionic Neural Sleeve
Maddi Niebanck • May 29, 2025
When I had a stroke in May 2017 that left my entire left side paralyzed, I was forced to reinvent myself. As someone who now suddenly dealt with mobility challenges, the resulting foot drop from my...
From the Roadway to the Runway for Multiple Sclerosis
Maddi Niebanck • May 12, 2025
Cionic Neural Sleeve customer Paula Prentiss was diagnosed with relapsing remitting MS in 2001, and has been wearing the Neural Sleeve for the past two years to help her foot drop and improve her...
NDEAM: What It’s Like to Return to Work After a Stroke
Maddi Niebanck • October 30, 2024
Ever since my injury, my biggest goal has always been to regain my independence. I wanted my old life back. I wanted to get around independently without assistance. To travel again. To be able to...
NYFW: Adaptive Fashion for Women Edition
Maddi Niebanck • October 14, 2024
Strutting down the runway, I strike a pose, and my sapphire blue Neural Sleeve catches the light of the photographer’s camera. The audience cheers. I’m walking down the runway for the Runway of...
Function Meets Fashion: Bionic Clothing to Adaptive Clothing on the Runway & in Real Life
Maddi Niebanck • September 5, 2024
“Show me your best model walk,” my friend Lizzie calls out as we saunter down Amsterdam Ave, walking off a particularly delectable Italian dinner in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. I strut ahead...
CIONIC Stories: It Just Keeps Getting Better
Maddi Niebanck • July 22, 2024
There is quite possibly nothing more alarming and disorienting than waking up in the ICU after an emergency surgery with absolutely no idea where you are and what happened. Unfortunately for me,...
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