How a hospital dream transformed adaptive mountain biking

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News Source : BBC News

News Summary

  • Tom Wheeler lost the use of his right arm in a mountain bike crash 15 years ago.
  • He designed a one of a kind arm brace with the help of his colleagues.
  • Wheeler's design has received global attention.
  • Former Wales Para-athlete Morgan Jones had a prosthetic hand made for him.
  • Jones finished fourth in the T47 100m track sprint at the 2018 Commonwealth Games on Australia's Gold Coast.
  • He said: "I feel so much more confident with it, able to keep up with my mates in a way that I never have before"
Since first creating his brace, Wheelers design has received global attention. It became really super apparent early on that this stuff doesnt exist.

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