Written by Mike Murray
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 6:51:30 AM
MERRILL-NATIVE JIM WAZNY WINS SNOCROSS SILVER
SAGINAW – Wright & Filippis prosthetic technician JIM WAZNY (Merrill, MI) stunned the extremity-sports world this past Sunday (Jan. 31), capturing the silver medal in the first-ever Adaptive...
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Written by Steffi Klein - paralympic.org
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:33:17 AM
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is proud to announce that it will have a special exhibition about the Paralympic Movement during the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games.
Titled “Spirit in Motion – Discover What Moves Us”,...
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Written by Cara Koski - Otto Bock HealthCare
Monday, December 14, 2009 10:37:06 AM
43-year old runner says Otto Bock HealthCare’s C-Sprint® foot
spurs his marathon successes
Minneapolis, MN-Pushed from a moving train when he was twenty-six years old, Edson Dantas suffered injuries to his right leg so severe that a below knee...
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Written by CAF - Press release.
Monday, December 07, 2009 7:48:02 AM
Rudy Garcia-Tolson became the first double above-knee amputee to finish an Ironman Triathlon when he completed the Ford Ironman Arizona on Sunday, November 22, 2009 in Tempe. “The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) has been fortunate enough to...
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Written by opfund.org
Monday, April 20, 2009 9:14:17 AM
McKeever’s
First Ride
´
An Introduction to
Therapeutic Riding
A Program of
OPAF and the First Clinics
Dan McKeever
(1910-1998)
McKeever’s First Ride...
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Written by paralympic.org
Wednesday, April 08, 2009 11:53:27 AM
The Paralympic Games
The Paralympic Games are a multi-sport event for athletes with physical, mental and sensorial disabilities. This includes mobility disabilities, amputees, visual disabilities and those with cerebral palsy. The Paralympic ...
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Written by Lisa Greene
Wednesday, April 08, 2009 11:34:17 AM
The efforts of faculty at the USF School of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences are making headlines. The school's innovative study on the efficiency of prosthetics and rock climbing was featured prominently in the St. Petersburg ...
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Written by Cory Kapes
Wednesday, April 01, 2009 5:46:38 AM
Therapeutic Recreation Sailing Expo, Paddleboard and Kayaking Clinic
St. Petersburg Sailing Center
250 2nd Ave SE, St. Petersburg
Saturday, April 25, 2009
This is an opportunity for people with disabilities to come and check out all the ...
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Written by Josh Mankiewicz - Dateline NBC
Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:35:47 PM
Tom White: There's an internal feeling that I get when I run... and it's something that's hard to explain. Maybe it's the same feeling that a musician feels when they play or something. But when I run, I feel a rhythm.
Tom White...
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Written by Norwich Evening News 24
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:31:55 PM
An amputee from Norwich will realize his dream this summer as he takes to the skies in South Africa to learn to become a qualified pilot.Steve Hopwood, 49, lost his right arm and leg in a motorcycle crash in 1986, in which he collided head-on with a ...
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