{"id":244673,"date":"2026-09-30T01:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/get-support-for-adaptive-sports"},"modified":"2026-09-30T01:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:38:19","slug":"get-support-for-adaptive-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/get-support-for-adaptive-sports","title":{"rendered":"Get Support For Adaptive Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/get-support-for-adaptive-sports.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exciting news for anyone considering a Hero Flex, thanks to the Challenged Athletes Foundation (Challenged Athletes Foundation)! \ud83d\udc99<\/p>\n<p>CAF exists because health insurance almost never covers sport specific equipment, even when it\u2019s the thing that gets someone back to the sport they love. Sport is deemed a lot of the time \u2018not medically necessary\u2019, but seeing how so many of our users thrive in their sport, we\u2019d like to differ! CAF made supporting disabled athletes their mission and since starting, they\u2019ve awarded over 60,000 grants to athletes across 105 sports.<\/p>\n<p>Applications open today, September 28, and close November 13 at 5pm PT. \ud83d\udeb4\u200d\u2642\ufe0f \ud83c\udfcb\ufe0f\u200d\u2642\ufe0f \ud83e\uddbe<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone in your family has a permanent physical disability and wants to get into sports or back to it, it\u2019s worth applying!<\/p>\n<p>You also don\u2019t have to do it alone. Your local Open Bionics CPO can book a Hero FLEX consultation and go through the CAF eligibility criteria with you.<\/p>\n<p>Apply here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challengedathletes.org\/caf-athletes\/\">https:\/\/www.challengedathletes.org\/caf-athletes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#HeroFLEX #HeroArmy #Prosthetics #ChallengedAthletesFoundation #AdaptiveSports<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/get-support-for-adaptive-sports\">Continue reading \u201cGet Support For Adaptive Sports\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting news for anyone considering a Hero Flex, thanks to the Challenged Athletes Foundation (Challenged Athletes Foundation)! \ud83d\udc99 CAF exists because health insurance almost never covers sport specific equipment, even when it\u2019s the thing that gets someone back to the sport they love. Sport is deemed a lot of the time \u2018not medically necessary\u2019, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,1495,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-health","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}