The participants were asked to walk, run and kick the ball using Lofstrand Crutches. Results: The maximum loading on the upper extremities during walking, running and kicking the ball varied between 111% and 175% of the body weight. While loading during walking and running was similar, the ...
" he added. "The cost of an ordinary prosthesis is around 60,000 to 100,000 yuan ($9,400 to $15,700), which many people can't afford, so they use crutches, instead."
What if he’s actually been a long-term amputee and his stump was knackered, and the reason he was getting around the place on crutches was because of that and thought I was being condesecending? I was wearing shorts that day with the titanium pole exposed so he would have easily been...
Rather than calling to the kids to come get the ball, he simply raised up on his crutches and kicked the ball back. It was a deceptively simple beginning to what’s becoming a world-wide international sport. A couple of years after the basketball incident, Bill Barry, a soccer coach wit...
Amputee soccer is a sport which is generally performed with one limb balance with crutches. It is therefore perceived that a relationship between balance and sacroiliac mobility, and should be considered for evaluation process and performance analysis in amputee soccer. However, in future studies, we...
What if he’s actually been a long-term amputee and his stump was knackered, and the reason he was getting around the place on crutches was because of that and thought I was being condesecending? I was wearing shorts that day with the titanium pole exposed so he would have easily been...
Given the high intensity of the game, it is important to emphasize that AF players should be in excellent condition to easily perform the entire spectrum of activities with and without the ball and while moving on crutches [9]. Studies underline the fact that using crutches is quite exhausting...
” After several years of walking around with one, Leo set it aside. He now has crutches stashed all over town—at work and the houses of friends and family—so he can show up on his bike and get along. Friends have seen Leo ride into a convenience store and roll through the aisles...
injured friend "wouldn't fit in" on the estate and that André should not bring him. André concludes the call, then is seen striding away on his crutches, his pinned-up empty trouserleg wordlessly expressing the truth of the matter, that he and not his friend was the one now missing ...
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