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Pages in category "People with spina bifida" The following 126 pages are in this category, out of 126 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Robert Michael Hensel (b. May 8, 1969 [1]) was born with the birth defect known as Spina bifida.He is also a Guinness World Records holder for the longest non-stop wheelie in a wheelchair, covering a total distance of 6.178 miles. [2]
George was unable to walk due to spina bifida. [7] They spent the first twenty-four years of their life in an institution for the mentally disabled. They lived without assistance in high-rise apartments for the elderly in Reading, Pennsylvania from 1988 until their death in 2024. [8]
The world's oldest conjoined twins, Lori and George Schappell, have died at age 62. ... had been diagnosed with spina bifida and ... The twins lived the first 24 years of their lives in an ...
Miller is the oldest of four children from Eugene and Denise Miller, and has a rare form of spina bifida. [1] Miller believed her disability would bar her from sports activities until she discovered wheelchair basketball. [2] Miller competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. As the captain of the U.S. Women's ...
She was born June 19, [5] 1955 [6] in Jersey City, New Jersey and learned to read at age five. [4] She has a spinal cord abnormality, spina bifida, [3] [7] and underwent treatment as a child at Babies Hospital in New York, the same hospital where she would later also spend her residency.
McFadden was born in Leningrad, then Soviet Union, on April 21, 1989.She was born with spina bifida, a congenital disorder that paralyzed her from the waist down. After her birth mother abandoned her in an orphanage that was too poor to afford a wheelchair for her, she walked on her hands for the first six years of her life.
Tomiko Itooka, a 116-year-old Japanese woman who became the oldest living person in August 2024, died on Dec. 29, 2024, according to Guinness World Records.