Deepa Malik

Wikipedia article on Deepa Malik (b. 1970), the Indian paralympic athlete who became the first Indian woman to win a Paralympic medal — silver in shot put at the 2016 Rio Games. Malik competes across javelin, discus, swimming, and motorcycling, and served as President of the P...

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Inspiring Paralympic Stories

Sportaction.eu profiles five Paralympic athletes whose paths cut against historical medical perceptions of disability: wheelchair basketball's Matt Scott, swimmer Jessica Long, para-cyclist Ryan Boyle, para-triathlete Melissa Stockwell, and shooter McKenna Dahl. Their Olympic ...

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How One Sport Saved a Paralympian's Life | The Rundown

A short profile from The Rundown of a Paralympic athlete whose discovery of sport became a pivot point after injury or disability. It sits in the genre of athlete-as-survivor mini-documentaries that anchor a lot of Paralympic media — adaptive competition as community, purpose,...

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A Paradigm Shift in Amputee Rehabilitation: An Experience from a Level I Trauma Centre of India

Open-access commentary by Mir N. and Sagar S. (June 2025) on amputee rehabilitation at a Level I trauma centre in India, where more than 23,500 new amputations are recorded each year. The authors argue for tightly coordinated multidisciplinary teams — surgeons, physiotherapist...

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Lars Behrendt: Steve Jobs on the role of perseverance

Dipl Ing Lars Behrendt, writing from the orthotics & prosthetics industry, reflects on Steve Jobs' line that 'about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.' The post threads passion-driven persistence, setbacks as ...

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