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Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
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Paraplegia
Impairment of motor and sensory functions in the lower limbs
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Rick Hansen
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Part of the vertebral column in animals
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