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STUART M. STOKE Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, Mass...
...playing fields of Stoke Mandeville, Aylesbury, England, were cleared last week for a competition called the Paralympics, and a crowd of 3,000 watched teams from eight nations fight out the two-day meet. The sports on the calendar were commonplace: netball (similar to U.S. basketball), snooker, archery, table tennis, javelin throwing, shot-putting and swimming. The manner of competition, though, was singular. Each of the 200 contestants was a paraplegic, denied the use of his lower body and forced to remain in a wheelchair for life. Some players were so badly crippled that the table-tennis paddles...
Hospital at Stoke Mandeville, Dr. Ludwig Guttmann, a German neurosurgeon who came to Britain in 1939. During the war Surgeon Guttmann became interested in the plight of paraplegics, invalids whose cases were sometimes written off as hopeless by the medical profession. In 1944, Guttmann went to Stoke Mandeville, with one patient, to see if some form of physical activity could help...
...lower trunk muscles to get around. With the newly developed muscles, the paraplegic can hold himself erect and move his upper trunk, arms and shoulders. Guttmann found that the best way to keep the muscles strong was to launch a sports program. He invented the Stoke Mandeville swimming stroke: the patient sits upright in the water, paralyzed feet floating in front of him, and rows himself backward with his arms...
...Crimson netted first and second in the 200-yard breast-stoke, with Ralph Zanl first in a better-than-good 2:25.3 minutes, and Ken Emerson second...