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Ellie Challis born in Harold Wood and grew up in Clacton, Essex and attended Tendring Technology College. [3] When she was 16 months old, Challis contracted meningitis, which resulted in the above knee amputation of her legs and a below elbow amputation of her arms.
She was born with a right arm that ends just below the elbow. Cerrie Burnell [114] 1994 Kerry Weaver: ER: Limp in her gait due to congenital hip dysplasia: Laura Innes [115] [116] 2004 Gregory House: House M.D. An aneurysm in his thigh had clotted, leading to an infarction and causing his quadriceps muscle to become necrotic. Dead muscle was ...
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 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 ...
These days, Tennessee middle school student Aubrey Sauvie, 12, who was born with no hands, says she can bang on her drums as hard or fast as she wants.
A transradial amputation is a below the elbow amputation. A transfemoral amputation is an above the knee amputation, and is sometimes referred to as AK. LEA is sometimes used to refer to lower limb amputations. A bilateral amputee is a person who is missing either both upper limbs or
Pleasance has even managed to fit the two-legged dog with a pair of pink prosthetic limbs to give her the opportunity to run the way her body was originally meant to.
Hemicorporectomy is a radical surgery in which the body below the waist is amputated, transecting the lumbar spine. This removes the legs , the genitalia (internal and external), urinary system , pelvic bones, anus , and rectum .