Saturday’s Google Doodle celebrates the 122nd birthday of Ludwig Guttmann, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who is considered the founder of the Paralympic movement. Born in Tost, Germany in 1899, ...

The Paralympics are one of the premier sporting events for adaptive athletes. Leaders can learn from the performance and ...

Ludwig Guttmann had planned carefully for July 29, 1948. That day, King George VI opened the London Olympics at Wembley Stadium, an occasion delayed for years by World War II. An hour to the northwest ...

At the conclusion of World War II, the British government commissioned Dr. Ludwig Guttmann to lead the first ever medical facility dedicated to the care of paraplegics. At the time, conventional ...

The Ludwig Guttmann Paraplegic Sports Foundation (LGPSF) is partnering with the International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation to offer grants to help any individual or organisation associated ...

The closing ceremony for the 2012 Paralympic Games. (Photo by Jack Walter.) Back in 1948, a German neurologist named Ludwig Guttmann was working at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Aylesbury, England with ...

The playing fields of Stoke Mandeville, Aylesbury, England, were cleared last week for a competition called the Paralympics, and a crowd of 3,000 watched teams from eight nations fight out the two-day ...