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Sentence Examples Amanda learned to walk again with the help of an artificial leg, spurning the use of a wheelchair and a stairlift. Thanks to the wheelchair she can fetch things herself and even enjoy a game of tig with her brothers. The letter recommended the council should aim for a target of wheelchair accessibility in 50 per cent of the borough's hackney cabs. A squeak sounded from the other room and moments later a middle-aged woman rolled out in a wheelchair. The boss has a daughter who is confined to a wheelchair by a psychosomatic illness. In the corner of my right eye, I noticed my wheelchair upright next to me, looking as innocently as if nothing had happened. This summer the congregation consisted of three elderly men, one of them in a wheelchair, eight women aged thirty to seventy or so, and us. She was up there on the stage in her wheelchair, her bald head covered with a blue cotton hat, pale and thin and weak and tremoring. Maureen's wheelchair takes up most of the space in the elevator, leaving me squashed against Clay. The laboratory instruments are quite easily positioned on lower tables or benches for me to use from a wheelchair. A very old woman, bent in half and tottering on crippled legs, slowly and painfully pushed her own empty wheelchair. Now thanks to a children's charity he can leap up and applaud because the new wheelchair rises at the touch of a button. He entered the circular chamber in a wheelchair, without wheels, instead, tracks like a tank, to push him along. Even Auntie Alma got out of her wheelchair for a quick shimmy round the dancefloor. This also means buggies and shopping trolleys can be wheeled straight on and there is also a ramp for wheelchair users. A woman she knows feels her electric wheelchair betrayed her when it short-circuited and stopped in traffic. He is very weak, suffers from pins and needles, and uses a wheelchair to get around. It is a documentary on a sort of wheelchair rugby and it is the sleeper hit of the moment. There was no wheelchair available and she was advised to use an airport trolley. When I moved to Canada and got a wheelchair, I truly understood how different I was from other kids. Show More Sentences Sitting in the wheelchair is a young woman with a pretty face and two shriveled legs. At first she was bedridden and then progressed into a wheelchair, but she remained a shut-in. Illuminated lift buttons will be at wheelchair height, and there will be handrails, tactile signs and vocal floor announcements. He also got some independence back after he was given an electric wheelchair. She sat up in her wheelchair as comfortably as her stout, 94-year-old body would allow. Good for very young readers, this book is about a vivacious mom in a wheelchair. He said motorbikes and other motorised vehicles would be prohibited from using the route but the scheme would be wheelchair and pram friendly. It's not usually a case of wheelchair thieves swiping chairs out from under patients, and the heists seldom show up on police blotters. This may have confined him to a wheelchair for all of his 31 years, but it hasn't restricted him to an inactive lifestyle. She designed a camera mount to be attached to her wheelchair that makes it possible for her to return to work. The diseases can damage the brain, heart, liver, kidney and skeletal muscles and confine sufferers to a wheelchair. The SAR contested the ladies' wheelchair fencing, judo and boccia events for the first time. Dispaltro initially hesitated in transitioning from the physically demanding sport of wheelchair rugby to the more cerebral boccia. And I decided that the elderly woman in the wheelchair being pushed by a skycap was old money. Access sometimes focuses only on wheelchair users, however visually impaired people and others need to be included too. The program this week is on the remarkable game of wheelchair rugby, known to many of its enthusiasts as murderball. The visitability ordinance was introduced by a councilwoman whose daughter uses a wheelchair. Lupin and his boys are saved from capture by a blonde bombshell and an Indian in a wheelchair. The game of wheelchair tennis follows the same rules as able bodied tennis except that a wheelchair player is allowed two bounces of the ball. I was presented with a lovely bouquet of flowers, given a gift voucher to spend and someone took me round the store in a wheelchair. Show More Sentences The tarmac then gives way to a stony track which is navigable by most pushchairs, assisted wheelchair users and powerchairs. The pub has recently undergone some renovation bringing the family room up to date and improving access for wheelchair users. She was left distraught after callous thieves stole the wheelchair from outside her flat in Godric Place. He was said to be confined to a wheelchair, barely able to speak, and suffering from brain damage. The new vehicle, which is similar to a people carrier, has five seats and is specially adapted for wheelchair access. Today, on his third visit, Jason coaxed her to stand upright unaided from her wheelchair. The specialist equipment has a host of features including seats with back support, wheelchair access, safety straps and visual enhancers. Alexandra has cerebral palsy, is confined to a wheelchair and suffers from frequent epileptic fits. He has discovered that life in Bolton can sometimes be awkward as a wheelchair user. One passenger disembarked from the train while it was still moving and a mother dropped a wheelchair ramp on to her son's foot. Lily would back her husband's wheelchair to the steps and then would bump the wheelchair down very steep and narrow ceramic steps to the floor. Inside, the shop is well-lighted, the aisles wide and the stalls laid out spaciously, so there is plenty of room for anyone in a wheelchair. The rubber tyres of the wheelchair bumped and banged against the curb as he tried to manoeuvre back onto the pavement. He guilts George into chipping in to buy her a new wheelchair, but they buy her a used model that ends up being a lemon. The wheelchair users and carers have been calling for a pedestrian crossing so they can cross the road and get into Tullow safely. Monday night is the traditional wheelchair night when all differently abled are guests at the club. Striking scenery was also shot in Iceland, where Bond uses his crutches, walker, wheelchair, and walking stick to run away from Russian soldiers. The little girl has dystonic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, which means she is confined to a wheelchair and needs 24-hour care. There are promises of graded paths and walkways, one suitable for wheelchair access. I recommend using a wheelchair and an ice chest, but any bizarre combination of objects will do. Show More Sentences In fact, once the allotted time elapsed, I was actually able to get myself into my wheelchair alone. Each new shop with two levels will have an elevator, while there will be wheelchair access to the 14-screen cinema. More than 70 tonnes of waste and spoil were taken from the site to achieve the levels required for wheelchair access to all parts of the garden. The launch also marked the completion of a new ramp providing wheelchair access to the building. A temporary lift has been installed enabling wheelchair access to one of the wonders of the world. The first section of the path is of compacted gravel and suitable for wheelchair access. Nor was the lack of wheelchair access to the newly-opened Mango shop missed. She used the wheelchair access to bring a buggy onto the strand but needed someone to physically lift the buggy onto the beach. A Sligo woman has called for wheelchair access to all election booths after she wasn't able to vote on Friday. They also had to do a lot of construction on the building, redo all the plumbing and make it wheelchair accessible. The path is tarmacked and flat and wide enough for a single wheelchair or pushchair. Bear in mind however, that not all are wheelchair and pushchair accessible. With the aid of the community and its residents, we will raise the money to build a house that is wheelchair accessible. They say the louts involved even left broken glass strewn on their path to puncture Rosemary's wheelchair tyres. Almost the entire venue, including all stages and podiums, was wheelchair accessible. The sun was almost gone, and Rowena shared the garden only with one old man in a wheelchair. Sports such as goalball, tandem cycling and wheelchair fencing, however, are quite unique in their development of rules and competitive dynamics. It has left his face partially paralysed, resulted in total deafness, and now he is confined to a wheelchair. All of these tests were done in our large, airy, wheelchair accessible, multi-purpose community hall. He said that it would not be possible to make the main entrance wheelchair accessible but that the council would try to widen some of the paths. Show More Sentences He said he only asked them to move their cars if they were parked on the pavement so a wheelchair or pram could get through. The end was sad, the wasted figure in a wheelchair being lifted into a helicopter sketching a parody of the brave gestures of old. Sighing, George heaved his pear-shaped body out of the borrowed wheelchair. These buses are designed with the whole community in mind and have low floors for easy access and wheelchair and pram access when required. So he parks outside on the pavement, forcing an elderly lady in a wheelchair on to the road on a blind bend. The minibuses are specially adapted for wheelchair users and the timescale to obtain a replacement is four to six months. His entire bizarre lifestyle the drapes, the wheelchair, the pills was hypochondriasis writ large. The marathon, together with its linked fun run, relay and wheelchair race, passed off without incident. Michelle rolled my wheelchair up the ramp on the stage, and I got to the microphone. Mrs Agnes Simms, of Holme Mill Lane, had been trying to get a wheelchair ramp fitted in her garden for the past three years. While you list a number of shops that are failing to provide access to wheelchair users, other businesses are equally culpable. The funds will be used to develop the area at the back of the community hall into a recreational area incorporating ramps for wheelchair users. A gently sloping pathway to a lower garden area works as a wheelchair ramp, but it also makes a great road for Amrita's tricycle. Blocking my path was a young woman in a wheelchair being pushed by her mother. Rather than being pushed around in her wheelchair, Amnah can join other children. They'd have to hire someone to sit me in a wheelchair and push me around all day. There is an old lady being pushed in a wheelchair past our car along a bumpy dust-track. I wouldn't be able to do any of the lifting but pushing a wheelchair around wouldn't be too bad. When I saw her in my outpatient clinic she could hardly walk and was brought in a wheelchair. He has been part of the Great Britain tennis squad and is due to play wheelchair rugby in Belgium later this month. Show More Sentences Now he is competing in the Paralympics in Athens as part of the Great Britain wheelchair rugby team. Their facilities include a 42,530 square foot athletic fieldhouse which houses 3 courts for basketball, wheelchair rugby and volleyball. After going to the 2000 Sydney Paralympics to watch the wheelchair rugby, Ross made the biggest decision of his life. In addition to being a world-class wheelchair rugby player, he is also a businessman. It's soon clear that wheelchair rugby is more than just a game to them, it's a revelation. Despite his disability he helped set up Scotland's first wheelchair rugby team. First told about wheelchair rugby when he was in hospital, it is a sport he has attacked with vengeance. To the novice wheelchair rugby looks like organised chaos, despite the presence of two referees and a panel of officials. He broke his back three years ago and was helped by the charity to purchase a specially adapted wheelchair so that he can play wheelchair rugby. Also thanks to the people in New Zealand who were so welcoming and helpful when I was there for the wheelchair rugby. At last wheelchair users can access the auditorium, with a lift installed in the front of house. Many wheelchair users have reported they have had near misses whilst crossing level crossings. Deane built a reputation as a guru, on the strength of what Blind Freddy could have done from a one-wheeled wheelchair. These new laws end a nine year battle by the disabled lobby to improve bus access for wheelchair users, the blind and the infirm. For disabled visitors there is a designated car park with a bus for wheelchair users, giving access to key parts of the site. Oanss, Ann thought, would still be in his prime when she was a dying, bitter old crone in a wheelchair. The wheelchair user can swing the desk to one side when moving in and out of the chair. This roundabout has become virtually impossible to cross for slow moving pedestrians, such as arthritis sufferers and wheelchair users. Peter is a 21-year-old wheelchair user who has never previously written for television. I am a full time wheelchair user with spina bifida and also have emphysema and osteoporosis. Show More Sentences The wheelchair users moved onto the train's ramps and then refused to move. Even when illness had shackled him to a wheelchair and reduced his voice to a croak, he never hid from his fellow man. One of the raids was at the home of an elderly woman in a wheelchair and another was at the house of a pensioner who fostered children. The pathways are distinctly marked and have absolutely flat surfaces, so that roller-skaters and wheelchair users can move fast and smoothly. Up until recently I'd been using a wheelchair for dolly shots and a plank of wood for a crane. The pair stole treasured costume jewellery belonging to the home's 18 occupants before loading the office safe onto a wheelchair. Even if you have to hire a private ambulance complete with wheelchair and intravenous drip, you must come in the following day. Facilities such as ramps and wheelchair lifts are often added as an afterthought and seats fixed to floors in cafes are often the norm. Jane wibbled anxiously in her wheelchair, which creaked ominously underneath her bulk. Another adjustment might be to rearrange office furniture to create extra space for someone using a wheelchair or an assistance dog. I clamber in the car and he, now used to doing so, puts the wheelchair in the back before plopping into the driver's seat. We'll get to why he's in a wheelchair in a second, but, first of all, how big is this? Referral to a wheelchair clinic for specialist seating advice is also important at the appropriate stage of the condition. Today, my patience is tested by 78-year-old Nathaniel Jones, a grizzled fireplug of a man in a motorized wheelchair. The fence includes stiles, a bridle gate and kissing gates which are fully accessible to push-chairs and wheelchair users. The parapet is a steel-plated wedge with no need for handrails, and the boardwalk is gently inclined for wheelchair users. Hawking uses his wheelchair as an appendage to his paralyzed body, a device for the physical expression of his personality. Bradford's sole Paralympian, Pete Finbow, is confident Great Britain will be in the mix for men's wheelchair basketball medals. A disabled couple were left virtually housebound when heartless thieves stole their car with their wheelchair inside it. Following a vague lead on a job, Raphael finds himself in a basement sitting across from a man in a wheelchair. Show More Sentences Once in Halifax I was physically attacked by a lady in a wheelchair who was panhandling beside me. The Westbury mayor admitted his wheelchair experience had not been plain sailing, and he is determined to support her campaign. The Safe Transport Action Group was formed after the death of two wheelchair users at pedestrian railway level crossings. The wheelchair was made of black and red licorice and the wheels were made of humbugs. Surely he would be better in a wheelchair without this intractably painful foot, and no longer having the risk of falling all the time. When she was diagnosed with MS at the age of 17, the Failsworth mother-of-two was confined to a wheelchair. Fortunately I was able to move the car out, enabling me to get mother and her wheelchair into the car. The 40-year-old is confined to a wheelchair, but can't wait to try his dad's invention. Council chiefs are clamping down on motorists who park on the pavement, blocking the way for wheelchair users and the elderly. Without leaving his wheelchair, he was able to make great strides towards a cure for conditions like his. He will also meet and be shown around the ground floor flat of a woman who is confined to a wheelchair. My theory is that his wheelchair was lifted off the transporter pad by a couple of hefty young officers. There are five different types of pin badges and all have the wheelchair logo embossed upon each one. Despite being confined to a wheelchair he enjoys going for a pint in his local pub and seeing his friends. Golds were won for boccia, plus men's 200m sprint, and wheelchair fencing events. Chris Brogan was the only wheelchair athlete to complete the Olympic triathlon distance. Let all concerned with planning this madcap scheme spend the next six months in a wheelchair! By this time she was permanently in a wheelchair, but still full of life and very fond of sangria and flirting with Spanish waiters. If some moron can stoop so low as to steal a wheelchair from an 82-year-old lady, what are we coming to? A 50 year old man was admitted to hospital after a head-on motor vehicle accident in which he was a passenger in a wheelchair. Show More Sentences The father of four can only walk with a stick and uses a wheelchair when he leaves the house. The patient, named only as Mrs H, was confined to a wheelchair and never left the home. He was hospitalised, endured numerous operations, was confined to a wheelchair for many months and kept out of school for a year. Everybody thinks they know somebody who's scamming welfare because they can't see a wheelchair. As my foot dithered between brake and accelerator, a lorry hung a left across my path and a person in a wheelchair zipped down the other side. There will also be complete access for the disabled and wheelchair bound players as well as an induction loop to help the hard of hearing. Kwanini, who suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta, has been in a wheelchair since the age of nine. The next several weeks Landon's recovery progressed to the point where he had some movement in his arms and could maneuver in a wheelchair. On such occasions his friends and colleagues would come to his rescue, up to six of them manhandling his heavy wheelchair. When she was 15, her father became paralysed and was confined to a wheelchair. He also needed a handcycle, which is more or less a bike that wheelchair athletes pedal with their hands. The difficulty in manoeuvring the wheelchair through the narrow house shows in the scrapes and marks on the walls. An official marshal in an orange vest was in place to initiate the spontaneous applause every time a wheelchair athlete sailed past. I have great difficulty walking and yet I rarely use a wheelchair and am thankful for every day that I do not need to. Maclean has already made a difference to local wheelchair athletes by donating a handcycle for them to use. She was confined to a wheelchair, could not recognise her parents and was given a year to live. His brother, meanwhile, had starved to death, trapped in his wheelchair in a mountain of trash and accessible only via a network of tunnels. The event will also include a half-marathon, wheelchair race, four-person relay and 5K race. SureStep is a technology that allows the wheelchair to climb over thresholds up to 3 in. A metal stand supports his B-flat bass instrument so he can play while in his wheelchair. Show More Sentences She can now walk short distances with callipers, but spends most of her time in a wheelchair. The mother of a disabled Trowbridge girl is overwhelmed by the number of kind-hearted people who have offered to help pay for a new wheelchair for her daughter. Is it challenging for Kevin McHale, the actor who plays Artie, to perform in a wheelchair every night? Jasmin helps her transfer in and out of her wheelchair, get dressed, and bathe. In one episode, Blanche agrees to a date with a man before she discovers he's in a wheelchair. Brutus Cohn, traveling under the passport name of John Lamb, tracked the wheelchair down the sidewalk. West sent his bulky bodyguard Pascal Duvier into the crowd to confirm that the seated fan was, in fact, in a wheelchair. At the wake, Maria parked the wheelchair next to the coffin, the cd player in the seat as if he were ready to roll. They unplugged their cellphones from overloaded outlets so a girl with cerebral palsy could recharge her wheelchair. Mobility may be extended by using the wheelchair for longer excursions and using other assistive devices such as a walker for shorter distances, or in the home. The wide ramp will give wheelchair access to the garden at the centre and the volunteers also concreted the shed area in the garden as well as giving the garden a tidy up. The main entrance has been made wheelchair accessible and much improved. After a couple of months of rehabilitation at a Calgary hospital, Berg and van Breda moved to Steveston where they have purchased a home and made it wheelchair accessible. Several key buildings in Waterford, including churches, are still not recognising the needs of disabled people because they're not wheelchair accessible. Should she return to work before then, it is likely that some adjustments would have to be made at the courts to make them more accessible for wheelchair users. It's completely non-smoking, although there's a smoking room downstairs, and a sizeable flight of steps up to the front door means that it's not wheelchair accessible. Mayo County librarian, Austin Vaughan, told the Western People that the mobile library is currently being upgraded to become wheelchair accessible. The museum is wheelchair accessible and allows people of all ages and abilities to participate in what Gillies assures is an informative, educational and fun experience. Former Missouri State Senator chuck Graham is paraplegic and confined to a wheelchair. The series also reversed a long trend that saw the character paralyzed by the Joker and confined to a wheelchair for a decade. Show More Sentences Any money raised on Saturday at the Scout Hall in Kingsdown Park, Stratton, will be put towards a disabled toilet and wheelchair ramps at the venue. The teacher, who has used a wheelchair for almost 20 years after being paralysed in a car crash, has previously piloted a light aircraft and plays wheelchair rugby. An interviewee aired the suggestion that all new buses plying in the city should be fitted with a manual lifter enabling a wheelchair user to board a bus. Once inside, wheelchair users navigate level changes with elevators. Nikita has learning difficulties and David is a wheelchair user. It can be very difficult for wheelchair users to use these roads. Mik is paraplegic and has been a wheelchair user since childhood. There is one wheelchair user among the athletes, so a home that is wheelchair friendly, especially for bathroom facilities, would be particularly welcome. Some seating is in a mezzanine area not reachable by wheelchair. Harry, met about 25 wounded soldiers hoping to compete in the wheelchair rugby, cycling and indoor rowing events. While consultation documents on wheelchair strategy have winged back and forth, the creeping paralysis of the National Health Service has gone unabated. Physical therapy helps patients learn to walk or use a wheelchair. Lance sat in his wheelchair next to his father, Christopher, who was already thinking to himself of the different ways he could help his blind, legless son. As the victim, who is partially-sighted, sat helpless in her wheelchair, the men rifled through all the rooms in the house before stealing money from her handbag. The crowd that December night at the Boulder Theater included a man in a wheelchair with two broken ankles, a pair on crutches, and a handful of others with pronounced limps. That could be the difference between needing a gastric tube or not or needing a wheelchair or not. At the below concert, he generously gave his microphone to an audience member in a wheelchair. He proceeded to personally change her gown and placed her in a wheelchair for the move. The shooting left Brady with slurred speech, and with partial paralysis, which required him to use a wheelchair. Kirsty, who was born with her heart back to front and with other major organs misplaced, will compete in her wheelchair in a three kilometres junior race. Show More Sentences When we got there they put me in a wheelchair and carted me off to a room. An airline was condemned today for charging a passenger the equivalent of half his airfare to take him from the airport terminal to the plane in a wheelchair. Never maudlin, never cloying, the story is that of a judo champion struck down in a road accident and almost overnight becoming a paraplegic in a wheelchair. One Serb man we met was given a wheelchair in very good condition. It is broken and caused my wheelchair to topple over backwards. Saraswati entered the courthouse in a wheelchair, passing through the metal detector that authorities had installed. She sat bent and unmoving in her wheelchair, with a large canvas bag in her lap. I now have a wheelchair and a pair of crutches and I will soon be starting on a new course of medicine to try and deal with the various medical problems. Although able to walk unaided, David often has to use a wheelchair. With laundry piled on her lap, she routinely risked life and limb as she navigated her wheelchair over the highway to the laundromat on the other side of town. This extension to the route is unusable for wheelchair users. In some cases there is barely room for a pedestrian never mind a pram or wheelchair etc, and it is far too dangerous to go on to the road itself to negotiate these obstacles. When the matron of an African orphan farm decided that the soft-hearted bachelor Mr J L B Matekoni adopt two of her charges, one in a wheelchair, he meekly agreed. First questioner stood up and said he felt cheated because he had come to hear a physicist in a wheelchair. A squeaking noise at the door made him look that way, swaying, and when he saw the woman shoving the wheelchair into the room he plopped back onto the edge of the bed. Cars parked in Park Road sometimes completely block access to the park and the pavement is dangerous for parents with buggies and wheelchair users. I clipped playing cards to the spokes on his wheelchair once. Access for anyone in a wheelchair, she said, would have been severely hampered if not made impossible by the various items stored in the eight feet square room. Tymoshenko has suffered from recurrent medical problems and appeared in Kiev in a wheelchair. If this house is later sold to someone who doesn't need the additional room to accommodate a wheelchair, it can be nicely used for laundry hampers or wicker storage baskets. Show More Sentences Barrow boy Wilkie has been in a wheelchair since crashing at Hyde Road Stadium in 1979 and several Belle Vue old boys are expected to be involved in the meeting. From wheelchair bound little old lady to escapee, that was my Grandma. But like one swallow does not make a summer, a few wheelchair ramps and larger elevators in a 5-star hotel do not make a city friendly to those who are physically handicapped. In the middle of the procession, a hospital orderly pushed a wheelchair. The major problem is that Sofia's street are mainly cobbled, which is not a problem for the motor, but requires a Herculean effort steering the wheelchair. As Stuart Spencer completed the puzzle, he realised that the picture included his late wife, Anne, in her wheelchair on a paddle steamer outside a pub near his home. This will be followed by a furlong dash horse race and a wheelchair race. The proposed chambers have been designed to incorporate the entire burial area and would include memorial housings, pathways, wheelchair access, drainage and gravel finishing. The patient stays in a wheelchair due to the instability of her knees, the extension contracture in her right knee and the hyposthenia of her right foot. This clearly implies, my correspondent asserts, that there is only one wheelchair available for use for every five passengers who have had the ill luck to be stood on. Now 78, Eduardo is wheelchair bound, alert but incapable of speech. An induction loop has been installed for hard of hearing crew members and wide flat wide decks and powered lifts mean that there is access throughout for wheelchair users. He is confined to a wheelchair and he hopes his own story will help change the minds of politicians who are opposed to lifting bans on therapeutic cloning. The youngster, who is confined to a wheelchair, is unable to breathe or swallow unaided and the only parts unaffected are her brain, heart, eyes and ears. But being confined to a wheelchair has not deterred him from tireless fundraising to help makeover the school's sensory garden in memory of three pupils who died last year. He was confined to a wheelchair and told that he would never walk again. But despite the need for twice-daily physiotherapy, constant dependency on antibiotics and in her final months being confined to a wheelchair, she stayed positive throughout. They get themselves a fitting agent who lives in a retirement home and drives along in a wheelchair, but remarks knowingly that conjoined twins will be a tough sell. He's wheelchair bound, and had an eerie sort of fixed smile on his face. A wheelchair technician by day, Caffrey is the band's go-to guy for discarded goods and modified gear, but his freegan finds aren't limited to the medical industry. Show More Sentences The Keoghs, realising that their present house, built as it is on a steep gradient, is most unsuitable for a wheelchair user, decided to apply for the transfer. We wish to point out that we know from practical experience that neither the towpath nor the underpass are suitable for either a wheelchair or pushchair. Works will include new toilets, plus a wheelchair access toilet, new kitchen and meting room, new central heating system, new electrics and a new slated roof. He was evacuated by the Red Cross, and is now catching up on his schooling and playing wheelchair basketball with other young men who have lost limbs in the war. Vinson was rolled out in a wheelchair wearing a full body hazmat suit. Curling has been adapted for wheelchair users and people otherwise unable to throw the stone from the hack. Wheelchair access is possible at several places on the former railway trails, and cycle hire centres offer vehicles adapted to wheelchair users. The wheelchair is secured using various systems, commonly including some type of belt and clip combination, or wheel locks. They include the bicycle, wheelchair, walking, skateboard, wheelbarrow, rowing, skis, and rickshaw. She is married to Dr Ian Thompson, a research chemist and former wheelchair athlete. Roisin can only communicate with her eyes and is permanently disabled, she has dyskinetic cerebral palsy and needs a wheelchair to get around. By the end of his life, Lane, also known as Plonk, was almost continually confined to a wheelchair. Examples include the Bedgebury Pinetum in Kent, which has a wheelchair walk. Dune-Buster, a four big wheel all-terrain wheelchair specially designed for dunes and slopping terrains. He now uses a wheelchair because of a form of Parkinsonism that has robbed him of use of his legs. Curbless showers with space to turn a wheelchair around offer the same convenience. This place is a sure cure for a gimp's feeling out of place and a sure cure for a normie feeling awkward around a wheelchair. His wife also suers from arthritis and, despite numerous bouts of surgery, fears she will end up in a wheelchair. Despite suffering upper femoral epiphysis and spending time in a wheelchair, she is now part of her school football team. The group hosts weekly jaunts around Kirklees for wheelchair users, including using off-road mountain trikes. Show More Sentences They were followed by the 1970 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games for wheelchair athletes. A ROAD accident in 1996 left Chandigarh resident Harman Singh Sidhu paralysed neckdown and confined him to a wheelchair forever. I also think the one wheelchair for five standees means if a wheelchair is on the bus then it can legally hold five less people standing. But now he's the sprightliest pensioner pooch on the block and a mini celeb after owner Sean Farrell got him his very own wheelchair instead. Lauren, who is coached by Job King, took up wheelchair racing two years ago after contracting transverse myelitis, a rare neurological condition. Kenya's Priscah Jeptoo came first the women's race and multi Olympic gold medalist David Weir won the wheelchair event. Those seeking intense competition can tune in to murderball, or wheelchair rugby to use its more common name. They had told Cole he could be whatever he wanted to be, not to let his wheelchair and cerebral palsy define him. It's in those moments that Cory, 35, trades his wheelchair for a wearable 'ReWalk' exoskeleton. To this day McClellan is almost completely blind and uses a wheelchair, although he has regained some movement and can walk with a cane. The JoyBar is a powered wheelchair controller designed to enable powered wheelchairs to be controlled using a t-bar scooter-style control. Grand Slam tournaments are held in conjunction with wheelchair tennis tournaments and junior tennis competitions. The wheelchair analyses brain wave data using signal-processing technology and delivers neuro-feedback to the driver. The best lifts can be operated by the student, says Renee Bogar, assistant sales manager for Ascension, a wheelchair lift manufacturer. There are also tournaments for players with disabilities, such as wheelchair tennis and deaf tennis. The heavier mag wheels focus the mass toward the outer edges of the wheelchair. Sue Frier, who uses a wheelchair, has been living in a two-storey house for two years. In such cases, the extra bounce is permitted for the wheelchair users only. Pedestrians, wheelchair users, roller bladers and cyclists can now cross Highway 97 via a brand new pedestrian overpass at Dayton Avenue. The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including wheelchair users. Find more words! 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