At 15, Mia Schaikewitz was a star on her high school swim team, when a blood vessel ruptured in her spine and left her paralyzed from the waist down. In 1992, Auti Angel was a professional hip hop dancer when the impact of a car crash severed her spinal cord and left her a paraplegic.
Schaikewitz and Angel are two of four friends featured on the new Sundance Channel reality showPush Girls, which hopes to defy the stereotypes of women in wheelchairs.
NPR's Neal Conan talks with Schaikewitz and Angel about the show and how they've reinvented their lives since their injuries.
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