MAY/JUNE 2021
FEATURES
The Adaptive Sports of Summer
From mountains to sea, intrepid amputees are getting active everywhere. Taking up an outdoor activity during summer can be a great way to experience improved overall health and wellness.
When Travel Calls
Once you master the art of traveling as an amputee, you’ll discover that adaptive travel is easier than you thought. These travel tips can take some of the worries out of globetrotting.
Albert Lin at High Tide
Albert Lin’s world-class adventuring hasn’t been diminished by limb loss. Since becoming an amputee in 2016, he has continued crossing cultural and geographic boundaries.
LIVING WITH AMPLITUDE
A Better Way to Amputate
Amputation surgery that preserves agonist-antagonist myoneural interfaces (AMIs) can increase amputees’ ability to control prosthetic devices while decreasing their phantom limb pain.
A Winning Book About Loss
Christa Couture’s book isn’t only about limb loss, but it will resonate with anyone who’s lost a limb, as Couture did to cancer during adolescence.
Mission Gait Raises the Bar on PT
Mission Gait aims to equip PTs with the clinical expertise they need to offer effective physical therapy for amputees and achieve better outcomes.
Partners in Peer Support
When amputee couple Kim Mylinski and Tom Carlson get married this July, they will become members of an exclusive club: husband-and-wife Certified Peer Visitors (CPVs).
The Art of Limb Preservation
Prosthetist Louise Mitchell is the proprietor of Odd Limb Art, an online boutique of upcycled items made from discarded prosthetic components.
Put Your Metal to the Pedal
Ampt Biking convenes amputee bicyclists of all abilities to share breathtaking mountain scenery and trail rides that range from gentle to gonzo.
How To Hire the Right Prosthetist
An ill-fitting socket can make your life miserable. So can ill-fitting prosthetist. It’s pretty hard to feel comfortable in your device when your practitioner rubs you the wrong way.
Message From the Editor
Throw a dart at a map of the world. Wherever it lands, Albert Lin has probably been there. Lin, the global traveler who graces this issue’s cover, filled all the
Tokyo 2020 Paralympics: International Treasures
Meet five world-class amputee athletes who will be contending for medals in Tokyo this summer at the 2020 Paralympic Games.
A Better Way to Amputate
Amputation surgery that preserves agonist-antagonist myoneural interfaces (AMIs) can increase amputees’ ability to control prosthetic devices while decreasing their phantom limb pain.
A Winning Book About Loss
Christa Couture’s book isn’t only about limb loss, but it will resonate with anyone who’s lost a limb, as Couture did to cancer during adolescence.
Mission Gait Raises the Bar on PT
Mission Gait aims to equip PTs with the clinical expertise they need to offer effective physical therapy for amputees and achieve better outcomes.
Partners in Peer Support
When amputee couple Kim Mylinski and Tom Carlson get married this July, they will become members of an exclusive club: husband-and-wife Certified Peer Visitors (CPVs).
The Art of Limb Preservation
Prosthetist Louise Mitchell is the proprietor of Odd Limb Art, an online boutique of upcycled items made from discarded prosthetic components.
Put Your Metal to the Pedal
Ampt Biking convenes amputee bicyclists of all abilities to share breathtaking mountain scenery and trail rides that range from gentle to gonzo.
How To Hire the Right Prosthetist
An ill-fitting socket can make your life miserable. So can ill-fitting prosthetist. It’s pretty hard to feel comfortable in your device when your practitioner rubs you the wrong way.
Message From the Editor
Throw a dart at a map of the world. Wherever it lands, Albert Lin has probably been there. Lin, the global traveler who graces this issue’s cover, filled all the
Tokyo 2020 Paralympics: International Treasures
Meet five world-class amputee athletes who will be contending for medals in Tokyo this summer at the 2020 Paralympic Games.
