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Do E-bike Bans Violate Amputees’ Rights?
When a town barred Beth Hudson, a below-knee amputee, from riding her e-bike, Hudson felt they were violating the ADA ...
Key Findings From the Hanger Institute’s Annual Report
Want a user-friendly summary of amputee-related research and clinical data? Look no further than the annual report released last week ...
How I Became an Amputee Punk
When Hugh Boyle was insulted as "a one-legged punk," he laughed off the taunt and used it as inspiration for ...
Why Do Women Get Less Effective Amputee Care?
It’s well documented that race, income, and geography can influence amputees’ health status. But there’s another fault line in patient ...
Amputee Filmmakers Shine in 2024 Disability Film Challenge
It was another record-setting year for the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge, with 136 entries. And as always, films by amputee ...
Do Running Blades Give Amputee Sprinters an Unfair Advantage?
Ever since Oscar Pistorius began racing nondisabled sprinters, sports scientists have been debating whether running blades give amputee athletes an ...
Memristors: Missing Link in Brain-to-Prosthesis Communication?
Photograph of the memristor chip courtesy of the University of Southampton. Monitoring neuronal cell activity is fundamental to neuroscience and ...
October Is National Bullying Prevention Month
Numerous studies have shown that children with different physical, cognitive, emotional, or learning abilities than their peers are at an ...
Football Fundraising Competition Yields More Than $5.9M for Childhood Cancer Research
Nine-year-old leukemia fighter Ethan Watts accepted the award on behalf of C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. Image courtesy of the U-M ...
Therapeutic Patient Education Leads to Fewer Complications, Better QoL With Prosthesis Use
Therapeutic patient education (TPE) is a continuous process for chronic disease that enables patients to improve and acquire self-care and ...
