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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 ...
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.
The first short-term success in human hand transplant surgery occurred with Clint Hallam, [4] from New Zealand. Hallam lost his hand in an accident while in prison. [5] [6] [7] The operation was performed on September 23, 1998, [8] in Lyon, France, by a team assembled from different countries around the world led by French Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard, including Professor Nadey Hakim, from ...
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 ...
A Kentucky woman said she is just happy to be alive after a kidney stone turned into an infection that would lead to a quadruple amputation. "I've lost my legs from the knees down bilaterally and ...
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.
An amputee Army Veteran is making Men's Health magazine history. 33 year old retired Army Sergeant Noah Galloway is the first reader to appear on the magazine's cover after winning the publication ...
Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery.As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene.