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Adaptive Adventures is Making Trails More Accessible

Adaptive Adventures is Making Trails More Accessible

Amplitude writer Kim Ousley explores how Adaptive Adventures is expanding adaptive hiking, equipment, and trail access to help amputees and ...
Life After Amputation: Becoming the Person You Once Needed

Life After Amputation: Becoming the Person You Once Needed

Nearly 10 years after losing his leg, Rick Bontkowski reflects on life after amputation, acceptance, community, and becoming the person ...
When Amputees Become Socially Isolated

When Amputees Become Socially Isolated

What helps amputees stay connected? A look at the barriers to social participation and how greater accessibility can open doors ...
ForMotion: Delivering Compassionate, Innovative “Whole Person” O&P Care

ForMotion: Delivering Compassionate, Innovative “Whole Person” O&P Care

ForMotion is a global network of orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) clinics that operates nearly 200 locations worldwide, including over 70 ...
Amputee Soccer's World Cup Moment

Amputee Soccer’s World Cup Moment

By Melissa Bean It’s not new news in the amputee community, but we are just weeks away from the 2026 ...
Connecticut Passes So Every BODY Can Move

Connecticut Passes So Every BODY Can Move

Connecticut passes So Every BODY Can Move legislation, expanding insurance coverage and access to activity-specific prosthetic and orthotic devices ...
Virginia Event Supports Wounded Warrior Amputee Football Team

Virginia Event Supports Wounded Warrior Amputee Football Team

Former Washington Redskins star Brian Mitchell tries to move around former Cleveland Browns player Eric Metcalf as an amputee player ...

VA Program Aims to Enhance Care for Veterans with Amputation

Posted November 19, 2014 The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has initiated the Prosthetics Patch 101 Program with the ...

Researcher Receives $1M Grant to Develop Virtual World to Support Amputees

Posted November18, 2013 A researcher at Nova Southeastern University (NSU), Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has been awarded a three-year, nearly $1 ...
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