Word: wheelchairs
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...Neroli Fairhall, 61, champion archer and the first paraplegic athlete to compete in the Olympics; of undisclosed causes; in Christchurch, New Zealand. When rival archers at the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles complained, wondering whether the New Zealand national champion gained an unfair advantage by sitting in her wheelchair, Fairhall deftly silenced them. "I don't know," she said. "I've never shot standing...
...years of rehabilitation. The injury ended Koné's Olympic and career dreams. But it set the stage for what would later become Airness - whose panther logo was drawn from Koné's nickname from the days before he was forced out of the boxing ring and into a wheelchair. "The long, forced immobility made me observe things in a way I hadn't before - including how fashion works," he says. Koné is convinced that catching up with giants like Adidas and Nike is just as attainable as the dream of millions across France to make...
...Tending to strike people aged between 50 and 70, it kills half of them within 14 months of diagnosis by progressively paralyzing the body until the sufferer can't speak, swallow or breathe, while usually leaving the mind untouched. It's MND that confines physicist Stephen Hawking to a wheelchair and last month claimed the life of Australian artist Pro Hart. Experts' understanding of the disease remains sketchy, and riluzole falls way short of being a cure: at best, it might prolong a patient's life for a year...
...blind, overweight patient in the wheelchair has terrible pain in her back and burning pain in her legs. She also has advanced arthritis in her knees and end-stage circulatory disease, which have left her with two useless legs that are red, swollen and infected. Now her shoulder has started to hurt. She can't raise her arm to comb her hair. Five or six other things are wrong with her--she tells me about each. Some we can help; most we can't. I tell her as much...
...officer was dispatched to Kresge on Wednesday, March 29 to a report that a wheelchair had rolled down from the Brigham and Women’s hospital. The officer arrived and reports that a van from the hospital will be by to pick up the wheelchair...