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VOL 46, No.1 February 2022

CASUALTY

TO SIMULATE REALISM IN THE TEACHING OF FIRST AID, EMERGENCY MEDICINE AND RESCUE

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ITW 18-20 March has been cancelled because the hotel has had to close and the group cannot find us a suitable alternative. We hope to reinstate it later in the year.

THE DAWSONS Caroline Thomas We learned in September 2021 that Mrs Denise Dawson died the previous year. It seems the family believed not many of us would remember her and, when the generous donation arrived, it was my privelege to reassure them that indeed we do, and with great fondness.

Her husband Dr E.C. Dawson, died in 2016 and page 34 of our Feb ‘17 magazine describes his remarkable life and contribution to Casualties Union. Doreen Delaney and I from London Branch represented CU at the memorial event.

Denise, who joined CU in 1962, worked hard for us too, quietly in the background, and so did their daughter Mary, who worked at CU Headquarters after she left school. It was an upstairs office in Vauxhall Bridge Road, with Mary Murphy in charge, and the work involved a great deal of paperwork.

Both were involved in the scoring for our big first aid competitions, such as the ones held on CU Day each October. The year Mary married she re-arranged the wedding so that it did not clash with CU Day! Her first wedding anniversary was spent scoring for the competition at Twickenham Rugby Ground, her husband David brought in to help. (That was the event that inspired me to join CU after watching John Wise create a bullet exit wound!)

Dr Colin Dawson was London Branch’s President for many years. I occasionally visited their home in Orpington, and Denise made the most delicious shortbread I have ever had, even surpassing my mother’s. She was a member for 59 years, devoted, supportive and loyal. The family’s total combined years and energy given to support our charity is truly outstanding.

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Holden on...

Another year already. What will 2022 hold for us? Welcome to the first digital edition of the magazine. This is an exciting time for CU as we can now share the magazine with any interested party, and they can read it immediately.

I hope everyone is managing to keep well during the recent upsurge in Omicron cases. We had a ‘Limbo Chrimbo’ in our house as myself, my wife and youngest son all tested positive the week before Christmas. Thankfully the jabs and There are many links to websites to add a booster kept it at bay and we only had slight bit more background to symptoms. Hopefully Springtime will once again some of the organisations bring a reduction in cases. mentioned in some of the Sadly the ITW has once again been postponed, articles. There are also so it looks like we’ll have to wait a bit longer links to videos of exercises before we can all meet up once again. too.

Look out for the search symbol you can click for more information.

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THIS MAGAZINE DEPENDS ON YOU Please send me anything you’d like to share about exercises you’ve attended, events you’ve been to and of course, any hints & tips for make-up & acting realism. It’s great to have photos with these articles so anything you can send will be appreciated whether its taken on a ‘real’ camera or your mobile phone. If images are too big to send by email I can advise an easier way to send them. If you have some great prints of photos we’d love to see them and you can send them by post with a SAE so they can be returned. I can accept your articles in Word Doc, Apple Pages, Google Docs, WPS and email, in any font or size! If you don’t have access to a PC why not ‘dictate’ an article to a fellow member.

For the digital edition it would be great to include video clips of exercises we could link to, plus we can link to websites or even PDFs and online photo albums.

Any material submitted must have the full permission of the people concerned to edit and publish said material. Credit must be given to photographers and writers of original work where required.

Copyright must be obtained before material is submitted. It is the responsibility of the sender to obtain such consent.

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Park Life

One afternoon last Summer, strange things happened in Green Park, Piccadilly. A woman yelped in pain and complained she had pinched her finger in the deck chair. Later she wandered off under the trees and rushed back to the chair apologising to her companion for being so late, sat down very out of breath and said she had a pain in her chest and was frightened because she had forgotten her puffer.

The companion was Caroline of London Branch, who kept an eye open for anxious bystanders, as the last thing this pair wanted was an ambulance. She had responded to new member Didi’s plea to get her involved without delay by arranging this one-to-one outdoor training session, using a couple of socially distanced deck chairs. Didi worked her way through several of the acting bits on her training portfolio and learned a lot of anatomy about the airway, the breathing mechanism, circulatory problems and the positions our first aiders must encourage us to use to make us feel better.

Caroline lay on the grass, demonstrating the problems of maintaining a clear airway in an unresponsive person, and the advantages of the recovery position, and Didi did the same to show she had understood everything.

For Caroline it was a refreshing trip to the outside world, and to a park that she new well in her youth when working for Thomas Cook in Berkeley Street. This was a new way to teach her favourite subjects: first aid and casualty simulation, and a real pleasure to meet this enthusiastic and highly promising new member. Didi’s homework is to read the training manual on Strokes, sit in front of a mirror and try to make a half-paralysed face.

As for Didi, “I did my best and Caroline was a wonderful teacher. It is all very exciting and I look forward to my homework!”

We’re on the right track Sarah Hardie, Furness Branch Things are a bit wobbly at the moment. Sometimes they’re on their way to reverting back to how they were and sometimes there’s a new setback. But as our normal starts to update itself, we’ve been getting back to work.

At Furness Branch we’ve seen a steady incline in Familiar faces asking us to do Familiar duties.

It feels kind of comforting, if not a little strange. One of these faces belonged to the Parkinson’s society, based in Dalton community centre. As normal is updating itself I thought I should do the same for our presentation, so I added in some new photos and reworked the old info, to hopefully give this group (who we see annually) something they haven’t seen before. I headed out, equipped with my laptop and trusty face mask, to give them a short presentation of who we are. The presentation was received well with interested faces and thoughtful questions.

There was also a reassurance that this particular group welcomed practical elements like demonstrations and having a go. So, my advice would be that, if you’re comfortable with it then, offering some practical activities to those who are asking for presentations is a step in the right direction. After all, a small chunk of flesh paste, a cocktail stick and a wipe per person doesn’t add up to much and small blood bottles are easy to sanitise before and after. I thoroughly enjoyed the change that the old familiar now brings.

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TWO-WAY TRAINING: THE PERFECT PARTNERSHIP Caroline Thomas, London Branch

As Training Lead for the City of London Unit of St John Ambulance, I was asked to help with a faceto-face training session for the units in our East London area, now that COVID restrictions had been eased. Immediately I had a mental image of a bunch of CU members bringing some realism to the event. We had often done this within my own SJA meetings at the Guildhall. I knew it would help prepare the first aiders for real duties, which had already begun. It would highlight their weak spots, usually techniques like recovery position and slings, so that they could practise those to perfection at their own meetings, and it would fine-tune their rusty communication skills.

So I persuaded a group of London Branch members to come with me: Graham, Didi, Jackie and Sandy. For the recent recruits it would be a much needed training session, Between us we presented wounds, fractures, sprained ankle, nose bleed, concussion, heart attack, stroke and seizures. The walking injured approached the St John people as if it was a first aid post on a big public event. For the collapsed casualties one of us asked for someone to come and help a person lying on the floor a little further away, just as might happen on a real first aid duty. After an hour of that we all lay down for them to practise recovery position on us; as usual they were surprised at how floppy we were and how we went where we were placed instead of wriggling to get comfortable, which often happens when they practise on each other.

Finally, supported by our new poster and a bundle of publicity brochures, I explained what CU was, who we work for, what we get out of it and how being in St John as well benefits both organisations: CU makes us better first aiders, and going on St John duties gives us reality to immitate for CU. Our team received warm applause and thanks for making the evening useful, exciting and fun.

For Sandy Wragg, who joined us in June 2021, it was her first activitity with us: “It was so much fun! The injuries and make-up were simple enough to handle, so it was the perfect introduction to CU’s activities. My fellow casualties were super friendly and helpful. I learned a lot, not just about how to simulate injuries but also how to treat them correctly.”

So I encourage Branches and Study Circles to contact their local St John Ambulance, show them this article and offer to do something similar. It you regard it as a training session for your own trainees, you might do it for minimal expenses or, as we did, none at all. St John is, of course, also a charity and by providing this service we fulfill our aims CASUALTY SIMULATION 02-22

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Friends Re-united and New Friends Made!

On Saturday 23rd October friends from the East Devon and Torbay and Tamar groups were re-united on an exercise after a long absence because of all the lockdown issues. We travelled quite a long distance from home down to the depths of Cornwall for a fire rescue exercise held at Treliske hospital in Truro. It was the first exercise for our new C.U. member Summer and she quickly became a new friend. After a very early start, when we arrived at the venue we were greeted with very welcome cups of tea / coffee and breakfast snacks, which after a long drive went down very well and at this point, we hadn’t even done anything!

The whole exercise was organised by the fire rescue team at Treliske hospital and throughout we were impressed by their organisation. Many staff members, (who are obviously over worked at the moment) gave up their Saturday morning to take part in the exercise, but they were very cheerful and understood the importance of the training drill. We were joined in our role by other volunteers from the ‘Friends of Treliske hospital’ who quickly became a new set of friends too, so there were in the region of 50 volunteers on the exercise all together.

After a briefing of all parties, we were escorted to the Endoscopy ward and waited to be assigned roles. Most of us were to be patients at various stages of treatment, but others were to represent visitors to the ward. Some of us were confined to hospital beds after, in theory, being administered an anaesthetic and others were in the recovery rooms and drowsy from sedation. Although prepared, we didn’t need to make ourselves up with injuries, though several of us were hooked up to blood pressure monitors and other equipment.

Once the exercise started in earnest the staff swung into action and they carefully guided us and escorted us down the stairways and to a safe area. Some of us were so swiftly ushered out of the building that we didn’t even see the smoke from the staffing area, which was the cause of the alarm, though we did see the arrival of the fire brigade who quickly rolled into action!

Fortunately, the exercise went to plan, and everyone was evacuated successfully without too much trouble and even those who had to be transported down a stairway in their beds, were full of praise for their rescuers. Once the exercise was over the volunteers took part in a de-brief and were served with lunch – Cornish pasties –quite appropriate as we were in Cornwall after all! The day made a refreshing change and proved that we were still up to the CU challenge.

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ZOOM ETIQUETTE Caroline Thomas, London Branch

On-line communication is going to be with us for some time yet, while COVID reigns supreme. There are plenty of websites giving advice about best practice, whether it is Zoom, Skype, MS Teams, Google Meet etc. Here are a few suggestions based on my own observations I have noted during Zoom meetings.

1. Make yourself as tidy as you would if you were greeting a visitor in your house: perhaps a quick hair combing.

2. Adjust your camera so that the whole of your face appears on the screen, not just the top part.

3. Do this before the meeting starts so that you don’t have to put your hand up to the camera during the meeting: it is so distracting to the speaker.

4. Practise with lighting. You don’t want to look sinister!

5. If you need to bend down to read or write something on your desk, turn your camera off. The top of your head is not your most attractive spot, especially if balding.

6. If someone is addressing the team, and the team’s faces are visible on screen, it is polite to mute yourself until you want to speak.

Even if you don’t need to be on mute, do so if you need to cough, sneeze or even clear your throat. You may be able to use your keyboard’s spacebar for this: it’s quicker than using the mouse to click on the mute button.

1. Test your tech in advance 2. Be respectful of people’s time

3. Limit how many people are on the call 4. Make an agenda and stick to it 5. Pay attention 6. Be on time 8. Make eye contact 9. Speak clearly 10. Don’t think you can get away with turning off your camera 13. Don’t interrupt when someone is speaking 14. Make sure you aren’t “live” 15. Don’t start a video call without warning

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Nice work if you can get it In late October ‘21, on a rare sunny day for the time of year, Furness Branch drove the 50 or so miles north to the beautiful area on the outskirts of Keswick. We met at the Derwentwater Independent Hostel for our briefing and to get made-up for the exercise.

We then ventured our way up to the famous Ashness Bridge, renowned for it’s vista of Derwentwater and the mountains beyond.

Once there we hiked about a mile up the hillside where the group split up and we all concealed ourselves in bracken, behind rocks and under bridges.

We were doing an exercise for World Extreme Medicine who train recruits to go to disaster zones and war torn countries. Today they were were doing a search and rescue exercise.

The scenario was that we had been on an early morning mountain bike ride on the hills when we had come a cropper and fallen onto the rocks causing a broken femur and other distracting injuries.

Despite it being such a sunny day it was still quite chilly and so we were glad to see our rescuers arrive after being stranded for well over an hour.

Some of us were stretchered down whilst others were assisted. A couple of others had to remain in-situ to be monitored whilst we ‘waited for the helicopter’. I was one of the ones being monitored but I was looked after very well by a GP from Ireland who made sure I was warm and comfortable and even gave me her own pink bobble hat to keep my head warm.

All in all it was a good exercise, it’s one we have done on a regular basis for the WEM and are always glad when it falls on a dry day.

I took a short video of some of the days events which you can see on our official YouTube channel.

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About World Extreme Medicine

World Extreme Medicine, formerly Expedition and Wilderness Medicine, is the world’s leading provider of expedition, wilderness and remote medicine training courses for medical professionals as well as an International Diploma in Expedition Medicine and a goldstandard MSc programme in Extreme Medicine.

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50 YEARS AGO SPRING-SUMMER 1972 Caroline Thomas

At first glance the cover picture looks like one CU ‘casualty’ being helped out of a train carriage. But there is a second casualty in the picture if you are sharp-eyed enough to spot him. The Editor apologised that there was no Spring issue that year, without explaining why.

An article approached the question “Where is Casualties Union going?” with a call for better training for our own members to create the whole casualty, not just the injury, hoping to encourage the first aiders who practise on us to direct their care accordingly. This was considered to be one way for CU to point our clients in the right direction. Another was for Senior Instructors to do cas-sim research and develop their leadership skils so as to advise our clients on improving their training sessions and exercises. CU was still a pioneer and we needed to be bold enough to offer difficult injuries in awkward places, rather than the stereotyped easy-to-treat ones.

The legendary Dr John Binning (Liverpool Street Branch’s medical officer, who helped to train me in my earliest CU days) wrote an academic article about firearms: the types, their mechnisms and the effects of bullets on the human body. It is worth a look if you are asked to portray gun-shot wounds, and you can find it in our digital magazine archives, available on DVD. If you would like one (free to members), just tell Headquarters.

Frank Short gave a wonderful description of the treatment he received in a first aid competition.

The team leader shouted loudly throughout the test, beginning with “Lie and stand still, everybody, we are here to help you. Is there any further danger from gas-leaks, fire, electric or water hazards?”

Frank’s small wound was gripped tightly, even when the judge told the first aider the bleeding was slight. The man asked about pain but did not wait for Frank’s answer. He announced that Frank had pallor, sweat and cyanosis, even though none was there. The call “Time!” to end the test was music to Frank’s ears.

Our Founder’s address to the members at our annual Conference is reproduced. In it, Eric suggests that the word ‘accidents’ should be applied to things beyond our control. “What are generally termed accidents,” he says, “are plain bits of selfishness or arrant carelessness.” He was decades ahead of his time, for the police eventually dropped ‘Road Traffic Accidents’ in favour of ‘Road Traffic Collisions’ for the same reason. He points out that Casualties Union are among the best in accident prevention through our study of staging, the mechanism of injury and the history behind it. In presenting our scenarios with realism, we are helping those who observe us to avoid a whole range of disasters.

A new First Aid Manual had just been published, and CU was delighted to read that at long last first aiders were invited to listen to their casualties! The words ‘careful’, ‘gentle’ and ‘comfortable’ appeared frequently throughout. They welcomed the addition of a chapter on procedures at road accidents, and hoped it was the end of the “rescue injuries” that were often added to “collision injuries”. However, they deplored the word ‘disposal’ to mean onward transport to hospital.

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A new boy’s impressions of his first exercise…

Angus Cleaver

My first casualty role at a significant exercise was on a November night at Southampton Airport. I had to simulate that I had cracked a couple of ribs when thrown forward as the airport bus crashed into the steps alongside an aircraft. It was good to know some days in advance what injuries I was to portray. Not having acted broken ribs before it was helpful that I was able to ask my son, who is an anaesthetist, how I should act.

My first lesson was about the start time of the exercise. This was advertised as 7.30 pm, and it was only after volunteering that I found out the reporting time was 2.30 pm. This was OK for me, but for those with a tighter schedule it meant reorganising the diary! In future, go by the reporting time rather than just the start time!

In addition to a few casualties the bus had a large number of university students, whose roles were to either try to help or get in the way!

As soon as the fire brigade arrived one student was shouting that I needed help, and I was half pulled, half carried out of the bus by a fireman. It was difficult to hear what he was saying through his mask and with the realistic amount of other noise. As he took me away from the bus I decided that I was making it too easy for him, and so half collapsed. He called for help to move me on, and another fireman helped to take me across the concrete pad and sat me on the ground with my back against an emergency Land Rover.

My student stayed with me, trying to give comfort. After a while a couple of firemen must have been detailed to look after me and started to work through their first aid assessment cards.

The second lesson I learned is that, whilst one may be wearing appropriate clothing for normal activity on a cold night, this is not necessarily sufficient for lying on cold, damp concrete for an hour or so! We generally have most of our warm clothing on our top half, which meant that backside and legs where not well insulated from the concrete.

My firemen realised that they had no suitable equipment with them to put under me, until one of them thought of getting a salvage sheet from their appliance. After endex I learned that two other casualties, who had started the night with less clothing than me, were suffering seriously from the cold.

As my first major exercise I was impressed with the organisation, the facilities for the preparation time, and the obvious value to the emergency services. I learned, and I trust they did too!

Note from Sarah Martin: To all the volunteers involved (Reading Branch, Aylesbury, Wessex, Surrey S.C)! It was a fantastic and successful but very cold night, however, the exercise went very well and we’ve received lots of thanks from the Southampton Airport organisers. Also, we had a volunteer Hayley from Aylesbury branch on her first ever exercise and she did brilliantly giving make-up a go and doing some fantastic acting!

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Dynamic Edinburgh Russell Holden, Furness Branch

On a lovely sunny day at the end of November, Furness Branch hopped on a train at Oxenholme and travelled the 3 hours up to Edinburgh to take part in an exercise for World Extreme Medicine. As part of their World Extreme Medicine Conference at Dynamic Earth.

It was advertised as ‘the only place in the universe where you can speak to a NASA astronaut, listen to a leading war surgeon, shake the hand of an Everest-scaling world record holder, and then pick the brains of a famous Arctic explorer’.

We were to take part in a simulated terror attack where the delegates, utterly unaware of the scenario, we’re suddenly plunged into a chaotic scene of screams, gunshots, explosions and dinosaurs.

Yes, you read that right - dinosaurs! The Dynamic Earth visitors centre tells the story of planet Earth and how our Earth works, how life has evolved in its different environments, and the future challenges it faces.

The basement where we are situated contained relics of past exhibits, including two full-size Velociraptors! It was a bit surreal.

We completed the same scenario around a dozen of times, each time getting a different reaction from the groups going through. Some were well prepared, some very organised in their care, some a bit overwhelmed and others like a cat staring into headlights!

It was another great experience for us, and we even got to try the tremendous Scottish delicacy, deep-fried Mars Bar.

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AN EVENING WITH EXPLORER SCOUTS Caroline Thomas, London Branch Leader

With only a few days’ notice, I put my wound make-up together and trotted down Gray’s Inn Road to the Calthorpe Community Garden, where the King’s Cross Explorer Scouts Unit have excellent training facilities and storage space. Leader Jules Mattson had decided to give the 14-18 year-olds an emergency aid course as they returned after COVID-19 lockdown.

He writes: “Getting a room full of teenagers to pay attention to a lot of material can be challenging if it’s just us talking. We wanted to try and make the experience memorable. There’s a saying that in an emergency, people don’t rise to the occasion: they sink to their level of training. So incorporating simulation to help reinforce the teaching was important to us, and we got in touch with Casualties Union via their website.”

Jules wanted simulated knife wounds to be applied to the limbs of two of his members, because of the tragic frequency of stab injuries on young Londoners, and Caroline was happy to provide the make-up and acting tips. Jules was delighted: “Our explorers put their skills into practice, got feedback and had an engaging experience to help consolidate the teaching. As leaders who work in emergency healthcare, we know the difference immediate bystander action can make, so we’re thrilled with the help from Casualties Union in giving our Explorers the confidence to act when first aid is needed.”

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Publicity tools at our disposal

Russell Holden

We have quite a few tools at our disposal to use to contact potential new clients and members.

CASUALTIES UNION WEBSITE Our website has got some great information, colourful graphics and links to Casualties Union’s You Tube videos, Social Media and contact details.

www.casualtiesunion.org.uk It’s designed to take us to a new level regarding our public perception and will hopefully be a good tool we can use to promote the great work we do in the community. There is also a contact form on there for interested parties to use.

EMAIL If your Branch has a good working relationship with an organisation you have communicated with previously why not drop them an email to touch base and see how things are going let them know we are ready to resume duties. Remember to send a link to the website.

SOCIAL MEDIA (FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM,TWITTER) Our posts on Facebook get lots of exposure, it spreads the message to hundreds of people and shows our audience that we are still around and ready to continue with exercises.

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YOU TUBE Did you know that Casualties Union has an official YouTube channel? It contains several short films of our activities on different exercises.

OFFLINE TOOLS We have a selection of printed material available. Contact Russ at ppr.cu@casualtiesunion.org.uk for ideas to promote CU, request for leaflets, banners & any other promotional material you may need.

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Interested in using Casualties Union?

Interested in joining Casualties Union?

If you represent an organisation that would like to use our services then please contact us. The realism of the makeup, staging and acting is the nearest thing your members will get to the real emergency. This is good training, for they learn to manage it the situation productively. Our members provide feedback In a debrief session where they can offer invaluable tips in how performance could be improved.

We always welcome new members so if Casualties Union appeals to you, please contact us (see the back page or website to locate the region nearest to you).

Members are covered by Public Liability and Personal Accident insurance policies and are fully briefed before any exercise. We take the safety of our members and participants very seriously.

If you would like to use our services, contact the regional director covering your area, and they will give you details of your nearest branch.

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• Experienced working with all agencies 𑀣 Paramedics 𑀣 Mountain Rescue 𑀣 Rail Networks 𑀣 Hospital training 𑀣 Fire & Rescue 𑀣 ATLS training 𑀣 Extreme Medicine 𑀣 First Responders 𑀣 Police 𑀣 Armed Forces 𑀣 First Aiders

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We offer members a chance to serve the community in a hobby that is interesting, challenging and fun. Plus, the satisfaction of helping first aiders, emergency services and hospitals train in communication, diagnosis and treatment.

We also welcome members with skills who would be willing to assist in the administration of our organisation.

What we offer 𑀣 Training and support, including acting, staging and makeup skills 𑀣 Being part of a team and regular

branch meetings 𑀣 Member’s Handbook, training manual

and skills portfolio 𑀣 Opportunity for further study and

advancement within CU 𑀣 Quarterly magazine, Casualty Simulation,

delivered to your door 𑀣 Reimbursement of travel and makeup expenses 𑀣 Insurance cover while engaged in duties 𑀣 Experience to boost your CV

What we expect 𑀣 A willingness to give your time voluntarily 𑀣 Commitment to be trained in our skills at training sessions 𑀣 Eagerness to participate in events as often as you can 𑀣 A reasonable level of fitness and mobility to participate in our events

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