Amputees and visually impaired athletes will now also be running the 26-mile, 385-yard, route.
Like most amputees, he was outfitted with a typical prosthetic leg that helped him get around.
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It can also be used to help patients with multiple sclerosis, amputees, and people undergoing chemotherapy.
The experience of dealing with adversity head-on often seems to give amputees a desire to overcome limitations.
He was one of the first amputees to try an initial version of the i-limb back in 2007.
The natural challenge-response we all have in us is what will be the biggest help to the new amputees.
That's especially tough on child amputees, who will outgrow several limbs before adulthood.
You know, a year would be great to see these legs on vascular amputees, because it does improve mobility.
The project sees combat veterans who are amputees or suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD), training vulnerable people.
At the inaugural African Amputees Nations Cup held on home soil earlier this year, they could only manage third place.
At Gulu hospital, malnourished babies wait down the hall from amputees, all victims of the war, all waiting for treatment.
Its CEO and co-founder, Doug McCormack, , plus its director of software engineering, Mark McWilliams, are both amputees and Magellan users.
When you've got 20 single or double amputees, four dead, scores still in the hospital, there's not enough money to distribute.
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The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have led to medical advances that are now being used to treat amputees in Boston.
It has reached over 100 medical practitioners so far and has also extended the project to amputees in Cambodia and Rwanda.
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"Amputees, strokes, autism, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy -- you probably can't think of a disability that's not represented, " Traum said.
"I'd ask my coach how I was doing compared to the other amputees, and he'd say 'About the same, ' " Traum remembered.
Starstruck amputees are being offered a golden opportunity to be on television.
Meantime, the hospital also introduced the patient to other amputees, including war veterans, to give Ms. Abbott a view into her possible future.
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Whitehead, who was born with no legs below the knee, is the record holder in the 200m, half-marathon and marathon for double amputees.
One new device, the iWalk prosthetic foot and ankle, uses a chip-controlled motor to propel amputees forward in the latest step toward robotic legs.
The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a "natural" level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available.
In 1999 Quinn began a series of sculptural portraits of amputees.
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Enamur Rahman, chairman of Enam, where some Rana Plaza amputees are recovering, said the hospital was committed to providing prosthetics and rehabilitation for amputees for free.
According to the Amputee Coalition of America, there are nearly 2 million amputees in the United States, and at least 25, 000 of them are children.
Those wounded veterans, many of whom are amputees or left unable to walk by their injuries, are now back in the US trying to rebuild their lives.
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While researching the lives of such amputees for my novel, I spoke to DeWalt Mix, who at the age of 27 was in a devastating motorcycle accident.
However, he was denied a chance to compete in the marathon in London with arm amputees in the T46 class due to International Paralympic Committee (IPC) regulations.
The ultimate goal is to create a state-of-the art company office that provides ergonomic solutions for amputees and seriously wounded veterans that will work at the startup.
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