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Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American sprinter who overcame childhood polio and went on to become a world-record-holding Olympic champion and international sports icon in track and field following her successes in the 1956 and 1960 Olympic Games. Rudolph competed in the 200-meter dash and won a bronze medal ...
After five years of massage and exercises, she managed to walk again without leg braces. She became a basketball star, and led her team to a state championship. Rudolph won a bronze medal, aged 16, at the 1956 Summer Olympics and three gold medals (100-meter, 200-meter, and 4 x 100-meter relay) in the 1960 Summer Olympics , setting two world ...
Abasiophilia. Abasiophilia is a psychosexual attraction to people with impaired mobility, especially those who use orthopaedic appliances such as leg braces, orthopedic casts, or wheelchairs. [1] The term abasiophilia was first used by John Money of the Johns Hopkins University in a paper on paraphilias, in 1990. [2] [3]
April 22, 1980. (1980-04-22) (aged 72) Columbia, Missouri, U.S. Occupation (s) Actress, singer. Ellen Jane Froman (November 10, 1907 – April 22, 1980) was an American actress and singer. During her thirty-year career, she performed on stage, radio, and television despite chronic health problems due to injuries sustained in a 1943 plane crash.
Max sets the stage for the story by reminiscing about his time in daycare, when he met a boy named Kevin (or Freak, as their classmates called him). Kevin has Morquio syndrome, wears leg braces and uses crutches, thinks of himself as a robot, and is bullied by many bigger kids due to his short height. However, Max likes Kevin and thinks the ...
On September 20th, Katie walked down the aisle in two leg braces flanked on either side by her father and her trainer Mike Barwis. Katie told Today that she was more nervous than she expected.
Prosthetics, the artificial replacement of organic limbs or organs, often play a role in fiction, particularly science fiction, as either plot points or to give a character a beyond normal appearance. Numerous works of literature, television, and films feature characters who have prosthetics attached. Prosthetics are used, in a narrative sense ...
American Horror Story: Freak Show features Elsa Mars (Jessica Lange), a German woman who had her legs amputated in an acrotomophilic film while working as a prostitute in Weimar Germany. Katawa Shoujo, a visual novel based on dating disabled girls. Dexter, a TV show in which a serial killer prosthetist is attracted to amputation.