How a hospital dream transformed adaptive mountain biking
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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