LIVING WITH AMPLITUDE

Holiday Presents From Amputee-Owned Companies
Our holiday gift guide usually focuses on products for amputee recipients. This year we're emphasizing products aimed at general consumers, ...

9 Things to Know About Knox Gibson
Learn about the background of Knox Gibson, a young Australian actor and amputee advocate who has a supporting role in ...

How to Educate a Doctor About Limb Loss
Doctors can read your chart and evaluate your symptoms. But they might not understand the physical and emotional challenges that ...

The Problem With Solving Problems
In true, objective reality, there are no such things as “problems.” There are only evolutionary invitations for us to enter ...
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Lakeshore Foundation Builds Data Warehouse for Adaptive Sports
The new Sports Science and High Performance Lab will gather advanced data to help adaptive athletes optimize performance at every ...

Women Prosthetists Are Making an Impact on Amputee Care
Female prosthetists are becoming more numerous and more influential within the profession. Amputees stand to benefit in some important ways ...

Amputees Dress for Success on the Runway of Dreams
The Runway of Dreams Foundation’s annual New York Fashion Week show is always a happening, and never more so than ...

The Lessons I Learned from African Amputees
Alexandra Capellini volunteered to share her personal experience of limb loss with Ethiopian amputees. She was blown away by the ...

How to Be an Amputee With a Job
Before I became an amputee, I had never seen anyone with a visible disability in my industry. Would I be ...

Taylor Swift’s Biggest Fan Shakes Off Limb Loss
Fifteen-year-old Hallie Barnard has overcome a rare genetic blood disorder, osteosarcoma, and limb loss. Now she's helping other families successfully ...

Voc Rehab Helps Amputees Get Back to Work—and Much More
Vocational rehabilitation agencies reach only a fraction of the amputees who are eligible for benefits. That’s often because people don't ...

Can Disability Sell? Totally Doable, Says Amputee Adman
Ad industry veteran Hugh Boyle launched Doable, the first creative services agency in North America to be staffed predominantly by ...