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paraplegics

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His work on paraplegics learning to walk again was featured at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival: New Frontier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Of those, 44 were marked as related to paraplegics, quadriplegics, other types of wheelchair users and other assistive-device users.

From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2022

Goydos remembers reading a story about a group of researchers who interviewed several lottery winners and several paraplegics and then going back to talk to the same people about their lives a year later.

From Golf Digest • May 21, 2018

Completely locked-in patients achieve a higher level of satisfaction with life than many paraplegics, presumably because they have come to terms with their fate and their loss.

From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2018

Some paraplegics seem to live a fuller life than ever.

From A Matter of Proportion by Walker, Anne