March 28, 2022 | Markets | Medical | Physical Sciences

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It’s March Madness! But what medical device helped a special group of WWII veterans enjoy playing basketball in 1945 and then helped the game become one of the first Paralympic sports?

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The wheelchair. Wheelchair basketball was first played at two USA World War II veterans’ administration hospitals: Corona Naval Station in California, and Framingham, Massachusetts, in 1945. Wheelchair basketball was one of the sports at the inaugural Rome 1960 Paralympic Games. Source: International Wheelchair Basketball Federation (IWBF)

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