Tag: aging with limb loss

Adapting to limb loss takes years. How can we do it if we’re not sure how many years we have ...

Award-winning animator Paul Demeyer is working an illustrated memoir that documents his adaptations to limb loss and his ongoing search ...

Five years losing his right leg, Jim Lanahan was ready to take his grandkids to Disney World—a big milestone on ...

Amputees are prone to overuse injuries in their unaffected limbs, and avoiding them is a lifelong commitment. Here are six ...

Being a left below-elbow amputee never slowed me down. But when I tore my right rotator cuff at age 49, ...

Older amputees can attain good outcomes more easily than they used to, thanks to cutting-edge technology and modern clinical practices.

A new paper strongly suggests that medical clinicians (not prosthetists) are systematically underestimating senior amputees' capacity to walk with prosthetic ...

At age 55, Lorie Tensen has been an amputee for 40+ years. She's making plans for many more years of ...

Septuagenarian strives for independence after amputation