Jenna Fesemyer
...own words: “You can come and compete, but it’s what you take out of it is what’s really important.” “It’s ...
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Scout Bassett
...Body Issue, and a feature on Glamor.com July 2020. In their own words: “Nothing compares to the exhilarating feeling of ...
Medicare Expands Telehealth Benefits
...patients can access their doctors using a wider range of communication tools, including telephones that have audio and video capabilities, ...
CMS Announces Lower Out-of-pocket Expenses for Insulin
...amputees who have already lost a leg to diabetes and who may be at risk for losing more of the ...
Can Traumatic Memories Be Erased?
...mate. Once the experience is committed to long-term memory, they no longer attempt to court female flies. The team found ...
Gratitude Is Good But Not a Cure
...us happier and healthier in so many ways,” said David Cregg, lead author of the study and a doctoral student ...
Does Having More Mobility Devices Mean More Mobility?
...circumstances, for many amputees and people with limb difference, more might in fact be the order of the day, at ...
Virtual Medical Visits Get Wary Welcome From Older Adults
...Healthy Aging had had a video-based telehealth visit with a provider via smartphone or computer in the past year. Meanwhile, ...
Gift Ideas for That Special Person With Limb Loss
...PRINTED ON IT. A GIFT CERTIFICATE FOR BUCK & BUCK AMPUTEE ADAPTED CLOTHING. AMPUTEE-PRODUCED ARTWORK OR TICKETS TO A PLAY ...
The Hanger Prosthetic Leg Turns 149 Years Old
...“The pivot C, in the rear of the center rubber cushion D, pad E, and leg B, combined as described ...
Paralympics 2020: Follow Amputees to Tokyo
...for slots on the U.S. Paralympic Team. Check in regularly for video profiles, athlete interviews, on-the-spot reporting and a complete ...
Using a Wearable Device to Exercise More? Adding Competition Might Improve Results
...at Penn Medicine and Deloitte Consulting LLP. The teams combined behavioral insights, gaming elements such as points and levels, and ...
Tips for Staying Safe in Winter Weather for Lower-limb Amputees
...We all sometimes lose focus on what we’re doing. When walking in dangerous conditions on a prosthesis or assistive devices, ...
Credit Counseling Can Lead to Significant Debt Reduction
...followed the credit records of counseled consumers and a comparison group for a year and a half following counseling and ...
Improving Recovery During Rehab
...rehab from skilled nursing facilities into the home setting will be the next critical step.” This article was adapted from ...
Voter Turnout Surging Among People With Disabilities
...The report finds 65.7 percent of people with disabilities are registered to vote, compared to 67.1 percent of people without disabilities. This ...
Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Could Be Dangerous
ONE-THIRD OF PEOPLE with a cancer diagnosis use complementary and alternative medicines such as meditation, yoga, acupuncture, herbal medicine, and supplements. ...
Does Your Surgeon Have a Good Reputation? It Matters
...the operating room, communicating disrespectfully with coworkers, or not following through on expected professional responsibilities, such as signing verbal orders. ...
Study Reveals Biases Toward People With Disabilities
...men and women compare on bias, women are more compassionate toward stigmatized groups,” Harder said. “Gender was one of the ...
Sex and Intimacy After Amputation
...feel about yourself. Trust and communication are key components to any intimate relationship. You and your partner must trust each ...
Jessica Long
...hospital. Long joined her first competitive swim team at age 10 and just two years later made her Paralympic Game ...
Acupuncture Before Surgery Reduces Pain and Opioid Use
...Acupuncture patients reported less pain, and 14 percent reported less anxiety. Those who received battle-field acupuncture consumed half as many ...
Jarryd Wallace
...knee amputation. Wallace was a runner before the amputation, and he was determined to be one afterwards. After competing in ...
Amputee Newsmakers: April 28, 2021
...Amputees in Puerto Rico are doing just that—and one of them just took silver in the 100 meters against top ...
Going Old School
...amputees who aren’t able or ready to get out and seek in-person support. This article is partly based on an ...
Playing the Sock Market
...and there were days when she just didn’t feel like wearing seafoam. Drawing on her 20-plus years of experience as ...
Limb Care on the Go
...he developed MoPOC, Kaufman found that many factors deterred his patients from showing up for prosthetic care. The most common ...
Shipping Out With a Dragon Boat Crew
kirill_makarov/stock.adobe.com “You don’t really need legs to participate in dragon boating,” says adaptive fitness specialist Luke Rumbyrt. You don’t need ...
Getting Into The Big Leagues
...most talked-about commercials of the Super Bowl, making it a clear win for Toyota and adaptive athletics alike. The commercial ...
Aggregate ABLEnow Savings Top $100 Million
...opportunities to learn about ABLE accounts. To learn more, visit ABLEnow at able-now.com or register for an upcoming webinar. See also “Financial ...
The Amputee Who Wrote the US Constitution
...competition for commercial and financial leadership in the new republic. Another famous New Yorker, Theodore Roosevelt, wrote a laudatory biography ...
Limb Care on the Go
...he developed MoPOC, Kaufman found that many factors deterred his patients from showing up for prosthetic care. The most common ...
A Winning Book About Loss
...sons to health complications, lost her marriage, and got cancer again. But Couture neither wallows in these experiences nor declares ...
Put Your Metal to the Pedal
...in August and wind up the season with a five-day backcountry trip in the Moab canyonlands in late September. There’s ...
Best Buys at Adaptive Spirit’s Silent Auction
...Guitar signed by Trisha Yearwood (Item #351) According to Memorabilix.com, the average Trisha Yearwood autographed item is worth $13.99. Subtract ...
Fashion Forward
...the disability community that people don’t even know exist,” she says. Disability has given Thomas an added lens for understanding ...
Making Caregiving and Care Receiving an Equal Partnership
...feels like wishful thinking to most. But according to caregiving expert Pamela D. Wilson, failure to obtain professional help can ...
Less Than 1 Percent of Foundations Have Full-time Staff With Disabilities
...foundations still haven’t made a real commitment to including people with disabilities and creating opportunities for them to participate fully ...
Restarting Social Life
...in the process and sometimes went ahead and explained things thinking it would make them feel more comfortable, in case ...
Remote Jobs Exclusively for People With Disabilities
...is continuing to add postions. Working directly with the Social Security Administration, the nonprofit organization recruits people with disabilities, then ...
Universal Right to Health Could Inspire Change
...the US, few people think that everyone has a right to health or universal healthcare. I think that if we ...
Cannabinoids May Affect Activity of Other Pharmaceuticals
...Medicine, and Paul Kocis, PharmD, a pharmacist at Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, compiled a list of ...
Study Highlights Consumer Concerns About Smart Home Technologies
...will be low, suggesting that they expect the impact of a privacy breach to be significant. This article was adapted ...
No Legs Required
...mission of this tap company,” she said. Rupert hopes to expand the company to include a larger range of disabilities, ...
2020 National Disability Employment Awareness Month
...observance of NDEAM, which is administered by the Department’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP). The observance culminates with the ...
Update: For Patients Who Need Surgery, Prehab Pays
...related to patients’ care and cutting their length of stay in the hospital, compared with similar patients who had surgery ...
Diabetes Diagnosis May Improve Health of the Household
...management classes, use of medications to stop smoking, glucose screening, clinically meaningful weight loss, lipid screening, influenza vaccination, and blood ...
NAAOP to Host Webinar August 21 About Protecting Prosthetics and Amputee Care
...open comment meeting to be held on Wednesday, August 26, in Maryland. This webinar is open to anyone who would ...
NAAOP Webcast: Fellowship Program Extended to 2019
...to pare back the broad list of orthotic Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes that may be exposed to ...
NAAOP President Responds to CMS Findings Regarding Lower-limb Prostheses
...Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Interagency Workgroup’s Consensus Document for lower-limb prostheses that was announced June 14. https://opedge.com/Articles/ViewArticle/2018-06-15/cms-removes-draft-lcd-for-lower-limb-prostheses-per-interagency-workgroup McGill comments ...
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