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T47 is a disability sport classification for disability athletics primarily for competitors with a below elbow or wrist amputation or impairment. T47 is a classification for track events, but unlike the other T40 to T46 classifications, it has no equivalent F47 classification for field events. The amputee sports equivalent class is ISOD the A8 ...
A bilateral amputee is a person who is missing either both upper limbs or both lower limbs. People who are missing both legs below the knee are sometimes referred to as BK while people missing both arms below the elbow are referred as BE. Transtibial amputation is a below the knee amputation.
The success of the Krukenberg procedure depends directly on the strength of the pronator teres, the sensibility of the skin surrounding both ulna and radius, elbow mobility, and mobility of the ulna and radius at the proximal radioulnar joint. Individual patient expectations and motivations, although more difficult to assess, probably play a ...
So at 21 she competed in her first Para World Championships, coming home from Dubai with a gold in the women’s 100-meter T-47 (a designation for athletes with a below elbow or wrist amputation ...
I moved on, and then when I turned to Grade 8, I decided to accept myself."She now participates professionally in half Ironman raceswhich consist of a 1.2-mile swim, a 56-mile cycle, and a 13.1 ...
Unfortunately, Ashley Brady, a 26-year-old amputee in Ohio had to deal with an unpleasant woman who had parked in a handicapped spot. A note left on Brady's windshield noted in part , "Hey handicap!
Jane Buckley, writing for the Sporting Wheelies, describes the athletes in this classification as: "Single above elbow/Single below elbow amputation or similar disability." [ 1 ] The Australian Paralympic Committee defines this classification as being for athletes who have the "Single arm, above or below elbow amputation.
Upper-extremity prostheses are used at varying levels of amputation: forequarter, shoulder disarticulation, transhumeral prosthesis, elbow disarticulation, transradial prosthesis, wrist disarticulation, full hand, partial hand, finger, partial finger. A transradial prosthesis is an artificial limb that replaces an arm missing below the elbow.