"We might make it, " Tom told his wife, "but we'd lose our feet to frostbite and spend the rest of our lives in wheelchairs."
By eight years of age, the boys begin to have trouble walking. By their teens they are often in wheelchairs, and by their 20s muscle function is so degraded that they die.
You might have noticeda lot more middle-age Americans using canes, walkers, and wheelchairs thesedays.
Article 58 When motor wheelchairs for the disabled and battery-powered bicycles run in the bicycle lane, their maximum speed per hour shall not exceed 15 kilometers.
It calls for the provision of devices, including wheelchairs and hearing aids.
Drivers underwent rigorous training that involved sitting in wheelchairs themselves and pushing their way up ramps and into buses.
The intension of Pegasus is to break with the image and appearance of current wheelchairs.
Every day before dawn, they drove a truck which carried big and heavy speed-contest wheelchairs to the highway in Bali where they practiced.
Sufferers of these hard-to-heal wounds mostly include elderly patients restricted to hospital beds or wheelchairs and diabetics beset by circulation problems.
As the research progresses, Roy says he'd like to add a collision-avoidance system using detectors to prevent the chair from bumping into other wheelchairs, walls or other obstacles.
People confined to wheelchairs often suffer urinary, respiratory, cardiovascular and digestive-system problems, as well as osteoporosis and pressure sores.
As Sadeq Jafari switched on his electric piano, his students shunted their wheelchairs enthusiastically around him to rehearse new songs.
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