Four Last-Minute Travel Ideas for Amputees
we scouted out some easy-access travel opportunities that offer a change of scenery, the chance to meet other amputees, and ...
Tammy Duckworth Keeps Amputees on the Agenda
Tammy Duckworth's Triple A Study Act could help tear down barriers to prosthetic care. But even with strong bipartisan support, ...
Amputee Newsmakers: June 3-9, 2021
An above-knee amputee opens a new chapter in the Guinness Book of World Records, an obscure reptile spurs theories of ...
LIVING WITH AMPLITUDE
May / June 2021
A Better Way to Amputate
Amputation surgery that preserves agonist-antagonist myoneural interfaces (AMIs) can increase amputees’ ability to control prosthetic devices while decreasing their phantom ...
A Winning Book About Loss
Christa Couture's book isn’t only about limb loss, but it will resonate with anyone who’s lost a limb, as Couture ...
Mission Gait Raises the Bar on PT
Mission Gait aims to equip PTs with the clinical expertise they need to offer effective physical therapy for amputees and ...
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
A New Amputee Gets His Show Back on the Road
When Darryl Johnson took his first vacation since becoming an amputee, something unexpected happened: Life started to feel pretty normal ...
First Person: Changing My Prosthesis Changed My Narrative
Congenital amputee Richard Slusher felt boxed in by his old prosthetic limb. Getting a new prosthesis helped him write a ...
Melissa Stockwell Keeps the Flag Flying at the Paralympics
Iraq War veteran and three-time Paralympian Melissa Stockwell sees a lot of overlap between the duty to promote American values ...
Amputee Newsmakers: May 27-June 2, 2021
The Modern Love column in the Sunday New York Times has never been part of our regular reading rotation. We ...
Five Lessons Learned by an AMI Amputee
Only about 20 amputees have had AMI surgery. Lexie Bader has had it done on each leg, so there’s nobody ...
Reality, Just Out of Frame
Promo videos for prosthetic devices depict the technology's functionality, which is cool. But they don't always depict functional amputees. Here's ...
Desmond Jackson Blazes the Trail
Amputee athlete Desmond Jackson is blazing trails and advancing the cause of cultural inclusion for amputees, people with disabilities, and ...
Aggregate ABLEnow Savings Top $100 Million
Since the ABLEnow program launched in December 2016, 12,000 Americans with limb loss and other disabilities have collectively saved more ...