Ludwig Guttman, a German-English Jewish refugee, bucked colleagues and convention when he combined spinal injury recovery with sports and mental health. “Although I saw many more victims ...

The legendary Sir Ludwig Guttmann is credited as the man responsible for founding the Paralympic Games and the Paralympic Movement as a whole. Guttmann was one of the leading pre-World War II ...

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 ...

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 ...

Independently, in 1948 British war veterans started playing wheelchair netball at Stoke Mandeville Hospital under Dr Ludwig Guttmann. The first national wheelchair basketball tournament was held in ...

Sir Ludwig Guttmann, a German-born neurologist, is considered to be one of the founding fathers of organised physical activities for the disabled and is credited as the man who founded the ...