Friday, July 2, 2021

Ludwig Guttmann: the British neurologist who created the Paralympic Games

 

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Google pays tribute this Saturday to British neurologist Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann, who created the Paralympic Games in England. With an emotional doodle, the most famous search engine celebrates, with an illustration by the artist Ashanti Fortson, the 122nd birthday of the doctor who founded the emblematic sports competition.

Guttmann was born on a day like today in 1899, in Tost, Germany (present-day Toszek, Poland), and received his medical degree in 1924. After obtaining his degree, he devoted himself to research on spinal cord injuries and performed several neurosurgical procedures, which consecrated him, with little more than thirty years, as one of the best neurosurgeons in the country

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Coming from a Jewish family, prior to the start of World War II he was prevented from practicing medicine and, at the beginning of Nazism, he was able to escape to England in 1939. It was then that his profession turned to the study of paraplegia and, years later, he was appointed director of the National Center for Spinal Injuries at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

With a deep desire to reintegrate his patients into social life, in 1948 he organized an archery contest for 16 people, one of the first official competitive sporting events for wheelchair users. Some time later, it would be known as "Stoke Mandeville Games" or "Olympics for the disabled".

This competition demonstrated the power of elite sport to break down the barriers of disability and attracted the attention of medical and sports communities around the world.

Ludwig “Poppa” Guttmann creó los Juegos Paralímpicos en Inglaterra.
Ludwig "Poppa" Guttmann created the Paralympic Games in England.

In 1960, Guttmann created the Stoke Mandeville International Games, the first of many Paralympic Games, which later incorporated disciplines such as basketball, javelin throwing, billiards, among others.

In addition, he founded the International Medical Society of Paraplegia and the British Sports Association for the Disabled in 1961. In England he received numerous accolades for his contributions, including being knighted by Her Majesty the Queen in 1966. Ludwig Guttmann died of coronary thrombosis on March 18, 1980.


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