Tag: Advocacy

Many people don't get involved in advocacy on the assumption that it involves lots of time, expertise, and political combat. ...

Insurers avoid covering high-tech prostheses by labeling them “not medically necessary.” But what if we shift the question from "How ...

What’s so funny about a quadruple amputee and a stroke survivor road-tripping across North America, collecting horror stories about caregiving ...

To get a sense of how Medicaid cuts might impact amputees, Amplitude asked one person living with limb loss to ...

These twelve tongue-in-cheek amputee-friendly laws won’t become reality anytime soon. But the fight for better disability rights and accessibility is ...

In the budget request it submitted last week, the White House asked Congress to eliminate funding for the National Limb ...

Ten days after above-knee amputation, Atlanta-based barber Travis Sanders showed up at work on crutches, propped himself up on a ...

Can a young, vivacious amputee build a strong medical partnership with a gruff, old-school prosthetist? It sounds like a setup ...

The SPORT Act, introduced by Republican Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks, would redefine recreational prosthetic devices as “clinically necessary” for amputee veterans’ ...

Choosing a prosthesis can be maddeningly complex. But a new decision-making aid lets patients and practitioners work together to set ...

A new Senate bill has provisions to help amputees and people with other disabilities start their own businesses—just in time ...

We’re not saying prosthetic research is broken. But we do think new technologies take too long to migrate from the ...

Medicare is considering a policy reform that would extend coverage for microprocessor knees to many K2 amputees. At present, only ...

Amputees' shared experiences and unite us. The Breece Fellowship helped me embrace being an amputee and made me a more ...

In "Against Technoableism," amputee author Ashley Shew draws a sharp line between technology that herds disabled bodies toward nondisabled standards, ...

In half a dozen states this year, amputees, prosthetists, and other citizens are pushing legislators toward better, broader prosthetic insurance coverage.

Judy Heumann’s influential ideas didn’t only make life better for people with disabilities. She improved the world for everyone. Here's ...

Advocating for ourselves as amputees is a tiring, never-ending task. But when I found a prosthetist who truly wanted to ...

US Senator Tammy Duckworth, a frequent flier and bilateral amputee, introduced a new bill to impose greater accountability on commercial ...

According to a recent paper in the journal Health Affairs, many physicians—by their own admission—routinely discriminate against people with disabilities.

Diabetes is the most common cause of amputation in the United States. Here are some initiatives for National Diabetes Month ...

November 2022 update: This interview with ThunderGong! founder Billy Brimblecom originally ran last fall, in advance of the 2021 show. ...

When my doctor told me, "You're doing so much with what you have,” it was meant to be encouraging. But ...

The Amputee Coalition’s “Your Ordinary Is Extraordinary” campaign gives overlooked narratives of limb loss a chance to find the audience ...

This 31-year-old amputee walked all 54 miles of the 1965 Selma-Montgomery march on crutches, becoming a high-profile symbol of the ...

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that one in four adults has a disability. But fewer than ...

Jillian Weise is an award-winning poet, author, and playwright, a creative writing professor at Clemson University, and a disability rights activist. ...

While it’s risky to speculate about the future and how it might affect people’s lives, past experience and current trends ...

An amputee since age 10 (cancer), Nicole Ver Kuilen became an activist in her mid-20s when she biked, ran, and ...

In 2004, when US Army Captain Tammy Duckworth, now a senator from Illinois, woke up at Walter Reed Army Medical ...

Kudos to the Amputee Coalition for pulling off its first virtual National Conference with nary a glitch. The technology was ...

Disability rights blogger, podcaster, whirlwind, and social media phenom Lacey Henderson seems to be everywhere these days. At 30, she’s ...

AARP and AARP Foundation filed an amicus brief on January 15 urging the Supreme Court of the United States to ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) is soliciting applications for its annual health policy/advocacy fellowship. ...

The percentage of medical students who told their schools that they have a disability rose sharply in recent years, a ...

By Erin Deegan Lunch Meat, Marathons, and Adventures in Between “YOU ARE SO INSPIRING!” a woman exclaimed as I browsed lunch ...

By Emily Dings The amputee community has had reason to feel optimistic in the months following the November 2018 midterm ...

By Amy Di Leo, MS Retiree Seeks Opportunities to Share Knowledge “The carbon fiber socket is a conductor. Even with ...

By Rick Bowers Neal Seigfried was thinking of helping his fellow amputees when he asked his friends to donate to ...

By Elizabeth Bokfi “With treatment, you have a 50/50 chance of survival past three years.” Such words can pack a ...

By Tony Phillips Amputation is much more than a physical loss. It is a permanent alteration of one’s natural body, ...

Cartoonist Raises Awareness Through New Comic Strip

MIKE DILLON USES COMEDY TO MAKE LIGHT OF HIS HEALTH CHALLENGES

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By Elan Young Losing one or more limbs can send a person reeling. Along with learning how to manage pain, ...

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