When I first encountered ROMP, my love for outdoor adventures was at an all-time high. I was climbing harder routes, running faster, skiing more advanced backcountry terrain, taking my overall fitness to the next level. Growing up in Colorado, I’ve always loved exploring…

When I first encountered ROMP, my love for outdoor adventures was at an all-time high. I was climbing harder routes, running faster, skiing more advanced backcountry terrain, taking my overall fitness to the next level. Growing up in Colorado, I’ve always loved exploring…

Empowerment through mobility. The process of becoming stronger or more confident through the ability to move or be moved freely. Ability to move or be moved freely: Movement itself can certainly be freeing, though many of us may not consciously think about our ability...

Written by: Ronnie Dickson Along with being a Prosthetist, Dickson has been a major player in growing the sport of adaptive climbing in America, including establishing the first stand-alone USA Paraclimbing National Championships in July 2014. THIS IS WHY I CLIMB...

From the first moment I walked into the ROMP clinic in Zacapa Guatemala, the air buzzed with possibilities. From my previously set expectations, I knew local amputees would be wheeled into the clinic and we would work tirelessly to help them walk out on a new...

What makes a life fulfilling? As a college student, my life is as full as the amount of sleep I got the previous night. Maybe I work these extended hours in hopes that my life might one day be easier. Maybe somewhere along the line I equated the easy life with the...

July 26th, 2015 marked the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The Range of Motion Project assembled a team of 15 amputee and non-amputee climbers and attempted to summit Volcán Cayambe to mark this important date. We wanted to show the world what...

I originally wrote this post for the Global Health Delivery Project in 2014. Just as true today as it was then. If the golden age of global health has taught us anything, it’s that we must avoid the theory, dimly articulated, of limited good. This theory is predicated...

Over the past three months, we have made more progress in the field of 3D technology in the field of O&P than we ever could have imagined when we started. And what excites me are the possibilities that lie ahead, that I can’t even imagine now.

I wouldn’t have felt it if someone hadn’t warned me. Then again, maybe I would have – it did last almost a full two minutes. I was in a mountain refuge when it happened. When I went outside, I was standing on 5000 meters of Chimborazo, the tallest volcano in Ecuador,...