Q: How Many Amputees Never Get Seen By a Prosthetist?
According to a new study, a shockingly high percentage of amputees never see a prosthetist. Your age, sex, and overall ...
Hot Amputee Summer: How to Survive Sweaty Season
As a Florida resident, Alexandra Boutté spends about nine months a year battling every leg amputee’s warm-weather enemy: sweat. Keeping ...
Amputee Newsmakers: June 10-16, 2021
Heartless insurers of the week: Sanford Health and the North Dakota Public Employees Retirement System. Their one-leg-per-lifetime policy leaves North ...
LIVING WITH AMPLITUDE
May / June 2021
Partners in Peer Support
When amputee couple Kim Mylinski and Tom Carlson get married this July, they will become members of an exclusive club: ...
The Art of Limb Preservation
Prosthetist Louise Mitchell is the proprietor of Odd Limb Art, an online boutique of upcycled items made from discarded prosthetic ...
Amplitude 24/7 May 2021
Case Clothed Brittany Burke takes amputee fashions personally. Her newly launched Uniteable clothing line is setting new standards for inclusivity ...
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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 ...
Christa Couture’s (Extra)Ordinary Book About Loss
In her gorgeous memoir How to Lose Everything, Christa Couture achieves a feat that’s rarely attempted in an amputee tale: ...