He’s the only amputee ever selected in the National Football League draft. And on Saturday, Shaquem Griffin added his name ...

At just 16 years old, quadruple-amputee Isabelle Weall has already won two national trampoline titles and gained Internet fame as ...

Born without her left arm below the elbow, Kaitlin Heatherly struggled with shaky confidence and low self-esteem until very recently.

Mark Williams believes he wouldn't be here today if not for the UK's National Health Service. "They saved my life ...

It’s been a while since we checked in with Angie Heuser. Quick refresher: Angie became an LAKA in December 2018, ...

Earlier this year we wrote about five amputees who've amassed huge followings on YouTube. They include Crew9t, who's been sharing ...

When we spoke to Lacey Henderson back on March 19, the Paralympics were still supposedly going to be held on ...

Companies all over the world are shifting from prosthetics production to the manufacture of 3D-printed personal protective equipment (PPE) for ...

Before the pandemic, most of us didn't have a fully considered hand-washing strategy—or a poorly considered one, for that matter. ...

Rural Iowa is gorgeous. But when you need to see a prosthetist to adjust your new high-tech foot, and you ...

Many musicians have twice as many arms but not even a tenth of Jack Thomas's emotional range. This amputee reminded ...

Sometimes it feels like we've been living in quarantine forever. To put things in perspective, we rounded up a few ...

The pandemic is pushing all of us, able-bodied or not, into unfamiliar territory—but that's often where new opportunities lie, John ...

Currently prescribed physical therapy often requires patients to complete regular exercises at home. Outside of the clinic, patients rarely receive ...

Worrying about catching an infectious disease can be stressful. Nathaniel Van Kirk, PhD; Kathryn D. Boger, PhD, ABPP; and Marni J. Chanoff, ...

The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) announced a record-breaking 3,921 individual grants were awarded to athletes worldwide—making it the largest grant ...

This dude works so hard. Seems like he never runs completely out of energy. He posts regularly. He writes thoughtful ...

Without access to the gym, pool, track or weight room, it's difficult to maintain optimum levels of physical and mental ...

If you’re required to stay at home for a long time, whether it’s due to the COVID-19 virus, an injury, ...

What do amputees do under quarantine? We dance. Watch the video.

Social distancing won’t last forever—and whenever it ends, iAccess will be ready. iAccess is a phone-based platform that allows people ...

How will amputees sustain community in the era of social distancing? The COVID-19 pandemic is testing the bonds that keep ...

Whether you’re unable to get out of the house because of health or mobility problems, lack of transportation, or the ...

It doesn’t seem like very long ago that we were talking up the 25th anniversary of Adaptive Spirit—and, in fact, ...

“Amputees don’t focus on what they don’t have,” says Patrick Quinn. “They work with what they do have, and they ...

The sports world wasn't entirely dormant over the weekend, as the World Para Surfing Championship proceeded to its conclusion on ...

We're reaching out to various friends in the adaptive community to find out how they've been affected and how they're ...

Sonia Purnell explains how Virginia Hall stood fast against the Nazis—with a wooden leg. March 24 brings the paperback release ...

In a technological advance for mind-controlled upper-limb prostheses, University of Michigan (U-M) researchers have tapped faint, latent signals from arm ...

The calendar is packed for the rest of this month, and at least some of these events aren't susceptible to ...

Our latest conversation with Hunter Woodhall comes on the eve of the NCAA Indoor Track and Field National Championships.

"History isn't only written by the victors," quips documentary filmmaker Day al-Mohamed. "It's also written by the victors who happen ...

Hunter Woodhall is one of the biggest stars and most recognizable faces on the US Paralympics team. We’ll be talking ...

A quarter-century is an impressive run for any fundraiser, but Adaptive Spirit merits an extra tip of the cap: It ...

The Agitos Foundation has launched a call for nominations for the I’mPOSSIBLE Award, which will be presented at the Tokyo ...

Before hitting the track to compete in an officially sanctioned race, some elite Paralympic sprinters must do something most runners ...

We got a lot of positive feedback last month on Angie Heuser's first-person story about learning to surf. So we ...

A new study shows that even when the surgeon and hospital are in-network, one in five operations could result in ...

For anyone affected by childhood cancer, there is an award-winning online resource provided by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital: Together https://together.StJude.org. Image courtesy ...

Last month we introduced you to Johnny Maynard, aka Crew9t, during our series on the most popular YouTube channels by ...

3D-printed prosthetics raised a lot of hopes when they debuted about a decade ago. But the quest for practical, durable, ...

The end of this week marks the 149th anniversary of U.S. Patent No. 111,741, filed on February 14, 1871, by ...

The African American Theatrical Ensemble (AATE) is accepting submissions for its staged reading of William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus on Saturday, ...

Scientists at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have developed an integrated socket fit sensor that can identify pressure ...

TLDR: Born in Vietnam, Haven lost her legs in a “family suicide” when she was 14 months old. Her mother ...

This story comes to us from Angie Heuser, a LAKA from Phoenix. Within months of her operation, she resumed running; ...

Throughout 2020, Amplitude will be providing ongoing coverage of U.S. amputees competing for slots on the U.S. Paralympic Team. Check ...

Family caregivers usually are not asked by healthcare workers about needing support in managing older adults’ care, according to a ...

A group of researchers from Clinical Research & Services/Biomechanics at Ottobock in Gottingen, Germany, and Vienna, Austria, set out to ...

Researchers at the Providence VA Medical Center, Rhode Island; the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University; and Brown University have ...