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Sir Ludwig Guttmann Health and Wellbeing Centre
After 37 years of pioneering health journalism, community engagement, and empowerment through information, we have now ceased operations. This website will be accessible until September 2025, with all ...
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Sir Ludwig Guttmann
The dental clinic is on the third floor of the Sir Ludwig Guttmann Centre. It is an open plan design with state of the art facilities such as digital x-ray machines, modern sterilisation area and ...
Inside The Games5mon
The History of the Paralympic Movement
The legendary Sir Ludwig Guttmann is credited as the man responsible ... British government to found the National Spinal Injuries Centre at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital. At this time, there ...
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ROME 1960 PARALYMPIC GAMES
The founder of the Paralympic Movement, Sir Ludwig Guttmann, and the Director of the Spinal Centre in Rome, Antonia Maglio, started preparations for the Games two years prior. It would be called the ...
Inside The Games4y
1960 - Rome
Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a German-born neurologist ... As director of the National Spinal Injuries Centre at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Guttmann was convinced that sport was an excellent method ...
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History of Classification
In 1948 Dr Ludwig Guttmann organised the first para-sport competitions, as an extension of the rehabilitation process. In the 1950s, questions were raised that “consideration must be given to whether ...