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Disabled Vet Frances Rivera Has Wind in Her Sails
As one of the nation's top amputee kiteboarders, Frances Rivera is way more comfortable gliding over water than snow. But ...
The Smartest Guy in the Room
When Phil Skiff evaluates federal grant applications, he’s typically the only reviewer without a PhD. But as a below-knee amputee, ...
Tips for Right-sizing Your Prosthesis Cost
The prosthetic marketplace seems designed to make amputees feel helpless. Here are some practical tips to help you get a ...
Me and My Giant Birthmark
How should a congenital amputee react when a stranger offers an unsolicited "solution" to your limb difference? I'm learning to ...
Paralympic Track and Field Nationals: 5 Takeaways
Ezra Frech, Hunter Woodhall, and Noelle Lambert were among the amputee athletes who stood out at this weekend's US Paralympic ...
Beatriz Hatz Rediscovers the Joy in Parasports
The daily grind of training made 2023 a frustrating year for Paralympic track star Beatriz Hatz. But the amputee athlete ...
Study Identifies How Objects Affect Brain?s Grip Plan
Plots that relate the neural patterns from each experimental instance show how the plans for gripping either of two objects ...
Stanford Team Improves Precision of Brain-Controlled Prosthesis
Brain-controlled prostheses sample a few hundred neurons to estimate motor commands that involve millions of neurons, so tiny sampling errors ...
Leading Experts Call for Making Cancer Drugs More Affordable
A group of 118 of the nation's leading cancer experts have drafted a prescription for reducing the high cost of ...
Canada’s War Amps’ CHAMP Program Turns 40
Canada's Child Amputee (CHAMP) Program turns 40 this year. The program was founded in 1975 by The War Amputations of ...