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The Home Stretch: Amputation After 70

The Home Stretch: Amputation After 70

Adapting to limb loss takes years. How can we do it if we’re not sure how many years we have ...
Paralympic Swag Ideas: Our Favorite 2024 Para(lympic)phernalia

Paralympic Swag Ideas: Our Favorite 2024 Para(lympic)phernalia

Few of us can afford to fly to Paris and cheer on America’s Parlaympians in person. But there are plenty ...
Guide to the 2024 Paralympic Games 

Guide to the 2024 Paralympic Games 

Team USA will send roughly 250 athletes to the 2024 Paralympics, including about 100 amputees. Here’s a sport-by-sport guide to ...
Paralympic Parables: Words of Wisdom from US Paralympians

Paralympic Parables: Words of Wisdom from US Paralympians

Team USA’s amputee athletes manage the same limb-care issues you do, fight the same healthcare battles, deal with the same ...

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Why Do Women Wait Longer for Prosthetic Care?

Why Do Women Wait Longer for Prosthetic Care?

According to public health researchers at the University of Michigan, women are far more likely than men to wait 90-plus ...
Psychedelic Guide Randy Layman Specializes in Amputee Healing

Psychedelic Guide Randy Layman Specializes in Amputee Healing

After losing his left leg below the knee in a 2022 motorcycle accident, Randy Layman carved out a unique niche ...
TandemStride: A New Digital Platform for Amputee Peer Support

TandemStride: A New Digital Platform for Amputee Peer Support

TandemStride is a digital peer-to-peer support platform that offers holistic solutions to everyday challenges of adjusting to disability. It begins ...
Bouncing Back: Returning to School After Limb Loss

Bouncing Back: Returning to School After Limb Loss

After limb loss, Gioanna Romano looked to college as a new beginning. She wanted to live on campus, get the ...
So Everybody Can Move: 2024 Legislative Wrap-up

So Everybody Can Move: 2024 Legislative Wrap-up

Most state legislatures have adjourned for 2024, and advocates for broader prosthetic insurance scored significant wins for the second straight ...
The Front of the Jersey

The Front of the Jersey

The July 2024 edition of Amplitude Magazine features a guide to the 2024 Paris Paralympics, reflections on late-in-life limb loss, ...
Innovation in Motion: Advances in Limb Reconstruction

Innovation in Motion: Advances in Limb Reconstruction

In the aftermath of an amputation, you’re faced with rebuilding a limb and your life. New advances in limb reconstruction ...
Spiritual Journeys Can Help Amputees Heal

Spiritual Journeys Can Help Amputees Heal

Spiritual journeys can help amputees (both religious and nonreligious) find comfort and inner strength, while taking a more active role ...
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