LIVING WITH AMPLITUDE
Taking Power Over Pain with Altius
Every evening when Jeff Pullen removed his prosthesis, he experienced an attack of severe phantom limb pain. “I’ve had pain before but it eventually went away. This is something that I ...
The Market Place of Ideas
The first time I went to a prosthetic fitting, I was in third grade. I was born without my left ...
DIY Wheelchairs: What’s Rolled Is New
An estimated 6 million Americans use a wheelchair as their primary mode of mobility—about 2.3 percent of US adults. But ...
Stepping Aside
Although I have had athletic habits at times in my life, I am not by nature an athlete. Before I ...
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
Dancing Again
After surviving a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and above-knee amputation in 1996 due to being hit and almost killed by ...
Beware: Medical Identity Theft is On the Rise
The Medical Identity Fraud Alliance, a public/private partnership committed to strengthening healthcare by reducing medical identity fraud, has released its annual ...
Discovering Hope Via Adaptive Golf
Loss—whether it be lost limbs, lost mobility, or lost opportunities—is a reality many amputees face every day. Through the Professional ...
Relieving Pain With Needles?
While the efficacy of acupuncture—an ancient Chinese medical practice in which fine needles are inserted into certain areas of the ...
A Drug That Can Prevent Diabetes Rarely Used
Few doctors are prescribing a low-cost drug that has been proven effective in preventing the onset of diabetes, according to ...
They’re Going to Fall
A woman once shared with me that she couldn’t get away from her aging father because every time she left, something ...
Singlehandedly Shattering Myths and Stereotypes About Amputees
In 1994, at the age of 15, Brooke Artesi, CPO, CPed, CFom, was pulled under a passenger train while out with ...
Amputee Activism: Speaking Out for Amputee Rights
Healthcare reform has gone through several iterations over the years, including many of the provisions in the Affordable Care Act ...
