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Healthy Skin, Better Fit
Moisturizing feels good, and it’s essential for maintaining healthy skin. For many people, it’s simply part of their everyday routine. However, moisturizing a residual limb when you wear a prosthesis can get a little tricky ...
Is a Woman Who Has a Mastectomy an Amputee?
As a professional immersed in the world of O&P and a woman with a bilateral mastectomy, I didn’t consider myself an amputee. Was I wrong? When I had a bilateral mastectomy over a decade ago, it never occurred to me ...
Therese Estacion on Disability, Rage, and Vulnerability
Therese Estacion’s forthcoming collection, Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disability and Vulnerability, refuses silence. Across six lyrical essays, Estacion explores disability, grief, rage, vulnerability, and the lingering impact of ableism with an honesty that is at once poetic, political, and deeply ...
Mountainfilm’s Must-Watch Films on Disability
I heard one festival-goer joke that it was “an act of God to get here.” But that didn’t stop producers, directors, and athletes with disabilities from traveling to Telluride, Colorado, for Mountainfilm, where this year’s festival featured about half a ...
Amputee Influencers
We’ve all heard how social media can damage mental health. But when you’re navigating life with limb loss, it can also be a lifeline ...
I Am Who I Am—Fit Me
I used to traverse the monkey bars during elementary school recess using the crook of my left elbow and right hand. My callouses were magnificent ...
Beneath the Surface
Shark Week star, author, and former Australian Army paratrooper and Navy diver Paul de Gelder has always been drawn to risk and adventure. “I hand feed tiger sharks, parachute, snowboard—I do all that stuff ...
Stepping Aside
Although I have had athletic habits at times in my life, I am not by nature an athlete. Before I lost my leg, I used to walk down from the campus branch of the University Book Store in Seattle and ...
