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WWAST travels the country hosting high-spirited and interactive exhibition games to bring a message of resiliency to communities. Photograph courtesy ...

Berling The most recent winners of Ottobock’s C-Leg 15-Year Anniversary Photo Contest have been named. The June winner is David ...

Moise Brutus speaks to Össur employees. Photograph courtesy of Össur. Moise Brutus, a triple amputee collegiate cyclist, was surprised with ...

National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), a nationwide campaign that raises awareness about disability employment issues and honors the diverse ...

Healthcare providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers in 2012-many more in some states than in others-according to a ...

The preview issue of Amplitude has been printed and will be sent the first week of September with the current ...

On August 23, Kim De Roy, CPO, PT, set a world record by an athlete with a transtibial amputation at ...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released its Annual Report on the Federal Work Force Part II: Work Force ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics & Prosthetics (NAAOP) has issued the following legislative alert: Congress is poised ...

An Indiana University (IU) Kelley School of Business, Bloomington, master’s of business administration (MBA) graduate has been named the winner ...

THE SAGE GROUP, Atlanta, Georgia, a research and consulting company that specializes in atherosclerotic disease in the lower limbs, estimates ...

A new study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which was published in The Lancet ...

Running May Reduce Risk of Death for Amputees Regardless of Duration, Speed Running for only a few minutes a day ...

Working-age adults with disabilities who do not get any aerobic physical activity are 50 percent more likely than their active ...

R&D Magazine announced that Hugh Herr, PhD, is the winner of its 14th Innovator of the Year Award. The award ...

Most Amputations Are Preventable with Earlier Medical Care, Researchers Say It’s no secret that poverty is bad for your health. ...

The Amputee Coalition has named three new members to its Scientific & Medical Advisory Committee (SciMAC). Deb Velez, BSN, MN, ...

Dudley S. Childress, PhD, passed away on August 6, after a long illness. He was 79. Childress was born on ...

New Training Program Prepares Veterans, Others to Enter Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Grabianowski at the DOE Manufacturing Demonstration Facility. He is ...

President Obama traveled to Fort Belvoir, Virginia, on August 7, where he signed House Resolution (H.R.) 3230, titled the Veterans ...

The Amputee Coalition announced that Ashby (AJ) Henningsen, 20, of Baltimore, Maryland, is the recipient of the $1,000 Christina Skoski, ...

Illustration of the IMES System courtesy of The Alfred Mann Foundation. When a muscles contracts, it generates electricity. This electrical ...

A U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU) soldier became the first soldier with a lower-leg amputation to successfully earn his Airborne ...

Using data points at four, eight, and 12 months after discharge from rehabilitation, a team of researchers from Australia conducted ...

Posted June 19, 2014 To mark the three-month anniversary since the closing ceremony of the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in ...

Researchers from the Yale Cancer Center and the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System have devised a way to ...

A First Swim participant receives one-on-one instruction. Photograph courtesy of OPAF. Ability Prosthetics and Orthotics, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Paceline, ...

Showers, Deenie McKeever, and Beatty. Photograph courtesy of OPAF. OPAF and the First Clinics hosted the seventh annual McKeever’s First ...

Hugh Herr. Image courtesy of UT Dallas. Last year, Kathryn Kuehn lost both hands and feet from a sudden bacterial ...

Country music artist Tim McGraw is traveling the country to urge people with type 2 diabetes to get their blood ...

Falling is bad news for seniors-oftentimes resulting in life-changing injuries, such as hip fractures and head traumas, and an increased ...

A new clinical trial is being conducted by Emory University’s Saint Joseph’s Hospital interventional radiologist J. David Prologo, MD, to ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) announced its new officers for the 114th Congress (2015-2016): ...

U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) joined U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (D-PA) to introduce two bills to ...

The Barr Foundation Executive Director Eva Hughes announced that the organization has been dissolved as a 501(c)(3) private foundation. The ...

The Pennsylvania State Senate approved a resolution on April 15, sponsored by Senator Chuck McIlhinney (R-10), to recognize April 2015 ...

The OPAF Dale Yasukawa Scholarship Fund is now accepting applications from full-time students enrolled in the Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is often thought of as a symptom of warfare, major catastrophes, and assault. It’s rarely considered ...

Photograph courtesy of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy. Researchers with the BioRobotics Institute at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), Pisa, Italy, ...

With fewer primary care physicians in the nation’s countryside, rural healthcare in America is beginning to look a lot less ...

Losing as little as 30 minutes of sleep per day on weekdays can have long-term consequences for body weight and ...

Leroy races to the finish line during the U.S. Army Trials. U.S. Army photograph by Spc. Maricris C. Cosejo. A ...

From left: Shawn and Dan Winer spearheaded lab work that could redefine diabetes as an autoimmune illness rather than a ...

New Study Finds that High-Cocoa Chocolate Accelerates Weight Loss Can you indulge your sweet tooth and lose weight at the ...

The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) announced that it has distributed $3.5 million in grants through its annual Access for Athletes ...

Photo courtesy of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland hosted its 8th annual St. Baldrick’s Foundation ...

The Amputee Coalition announced that April is Limb Loss Awareness Month-the coalition’s initiative to increase awareness about those living with ...

The United States Tennis Association (USTA) of Texas recently appointed Jeff Bourns to its Adaptive Tennis Committee. Bourns has 25 ...

Users can drive this brain-controlled wheelchair reliably and safely over long periods of time thanks to the incorporation of “shared ...

For all their lethality, cancer cells don’t look much different from healthy cells, a simple fact that causes endless pain ...