78 search results for: Worthy Causes
The Heart of the Matter
...decade. Titled “Time to Get to Our Feet,” the statement urges primary care doctors to educate themselves and their patients ...
How Will Russia’s Attack on Ukraine Affect the Limb-loss Community?
...war causes limb loss in multiple ways. In addition to soldiers and civilians who lose limbs to bullets and shrapnel, ...
The Liner Wand Amputee Community Survey: Key Findings
...are caused by diabetes and peripheral artery disease. Trauma accounted for most of the remainder, with cancer and other causes ...
Katy Grainger Feels Lucky to Be Alive
...250,000 Americans a year and causes limb loss in thousands of patients. Like most sepsis victims, Grainger didn’t recognize the ...
The Trouble With Treatments for Phantom Limb Pain
...that a foreign input causes pain by triggering an error signal in the brain has also been refuted. For example, ...
How Well Can Older Amputees Adapt to Prostheses?
...diabetes and peripheral vascular disease—two of the leading causes of limb loss. The healthcare system and society at large are ...
New Research Shows Potential for Phantom Motor Execution
...pain. What’s still unclear is how PME causes this improvement, or whether there’s any cause and effect at all. “The ...
The Tesla of Powered Prostheses
...brake pedal on an EV causes the motor to run in reverse. While conventional brakes burn off untapped momentum as ...
Amputee Coalition Seeks Presenters for ’22 Conference
...amputees with different types of limb loss and limb difference, and that stem from a variety of causes? How can ...
Barrel Of Laughs – Amputee Humor: Funny Or Offensive?
...Edition, by Daniel L. Schacter), I can’t help but wonder how is it that my amputated leg causes the jokester ...
Beyond Opioids
...causes frequent, even chronic pain, Lough sometimes depended on medication. “Ibuprofen is a great drug,” he says, “but when the ...
Research Team Developing Robotic Prostheses to Restore Balance
...behavior. Hur and his team have subjects with normal walking and balancing ability walk across an oily surface that causes ...
