JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2024
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The Secret Lives of Amputee Limbs
When the star of Stump Kitchen started painting colorful characters onto her residual limb, she learned about lots of other amputees who’ve given their limbs separate names and identities.
Cam Ayala: Losing a Limb Helped Me Find My Way to Love
Loving yourself is much easier said than done—especially when you’re an amputee. We are often our own toughest critics, and society’s expectations can seem like an impossible target to hit.
LIVING WITH AMPLITUDE
How Amputees Can Avoid the Benefits Cliff
In theory, income limits ensure that aid gets funneled to the people who need it most. But in practice, they make it harder for amputees to earn their way to self-sufficiency.
These Paralympic Rookies Are Ready for Prime Time
Team USA will bring a strong group of first-time Paralympians to the 2024 Paris Games. The athletes below all appear ready not only to make the 2024 Paralympic team but to contend for medals.
Lakeshore Foundation Unveils New Parasports Data Center
Lakeshore’s new Sports Science and High Performance Lab has started compiling detailed information about adaptive sports at every skill level, from top-tier competitors to recreational and casual participants.
Biggest Questions for Amputees in 2024, Quarter by Quarter
Is prosthetic insurance reform ready to go national? Will limb-loss statistics finally add up? Is a breakthrough technology ever actually going to break through? You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.
Can AI Draw an X3? LOL.
One of these images shows a real prosthetic limb; the rest are AI-generated. All are commercially available from a stock-image company. Can you guess which image shows a real device?
Designers and Amputees Must Join Hands
A recent paper in the journal Science Robotics offers several ideas for the design community to close the sizable gap between amputees’ needs and the bionic arms and hands available to them.
Experimental Prosthesis Restores Foot-Brain Connection
According to a new study from Case Western University, neuroprosthetic devices restore a critical connection between the soles of the feet and a brain region called the sensorimotor cortex.
What I Learned as a Breece Fellow
Amputees’ shared experiences and unite us. The Breece Fellowship helped me embrace being an amputee and made me a more educated patient and more confident advocate for limb difference and disability.
A New Leaf
The January 2024 edition of Amplitude Magazine features articles about amputee movie archetypes, Bachelorette star Cam Ayala, residual limb cosplay, and other subjects about limb loss.
How Amputees Can Avoid the Benefits Cliff
In theory, income limits ensure that aid gets funneled to the people who need it most. But in practice, they make it harder for amputees to earn their way to self-sufficiency.
These Paralympic Rookies Are Ready for Prime Time
Team USA will bring a strong group of first-time Paralympians to the 2024 Paris Games. The athletes below all appear ready not only to make the 2024 Paralympic team but to contend for medals.
Lakeshore Foundation Unveils New Parasports Data Center
Lakeshore’s new Sports Science and High Performance Lab has started compiling detailed information about adaptive sports at every skill level, from top-tier competitors to recreational and casual participants.
Biggest Questions for Amputees in 2024, Quarter by Quarter
Is prosthetic insurance reform ready to go national? Will limb-loss statistics finally add up? Is a breakthrough technology ever actually going to break through? You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.
Can AI Draw an X3? LOL.
One of these images shows a real prosthetic limb; the rest are AI-generated. All are commercially available from a stock-image company. Can you guess which image shows a real device?
Designers and Amputees Must Join Hands
A recent paper in the journal Science Robotics offers several ideas for the design community to close the sizable gap between amputees’ needs and the bionic arms and hands available to them.
Experimental Prosthesis Restores Foot-Brain Connection
According to a new study from Case Western University, neuroprosthetic devices restore a critical connection between the soles of the feet and a brain region called the sensorimotor cortex.
What I Learned as a Breece Fellow
Amputees’ shared experiences and unite us. The Breece Fellowship helped me embrace being an amputee and made me a more educated patient and more confident advocate for limb difference and disability.
A New Leaf
The January 2024 edition of Amplitude Magazine features articles about amputee movie archetypes, Bachelorette star Cam Ayala, residual limb cosplay, and other subjects about limb loss.
