Patterns of amputation, prosthesis use, and rehabilitation have changed dramatically during the pandemic, and there’s no guarantee things will ever revert to their pre-COVID baselines.
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First Person: Leaving the Pandemic Behind
The pandemic kept amputee hiker Bjoern Eser off the trail for most of 2020—the exact opposite of what he'd planned. Here's how Eser rewrote his script for 2021 and put himself back on the path to fulfillment.
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A Pandemic Within a Pandemic
Multiple investigations have shown sharp increases in diabetes-related amputations since the pandemic began, as individuals either are unable or reluctant to access necessary care.
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COVID-19’s Impact on Amputee Health
If you’re living with limb loss, you don’t have to get infected by COVID-19 to be affected by the disease. At least, that’s the hypothesis being tested by a Ph.D. candidate at Syracuse University. Kyle Leister, who is a certified prosthetist as well as a graduate student, is leading a study to determine whether quarantine...
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Top 9 COVID Masks for Amputees
There's a wide selection of COVID masks with designs for amputees. Here's our survey of the best amputee-themed COVID masks you can buy.
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The Professional Value-Add of Limb Loss
When John Register counsels amputees, he starts with a simple message: You have more worth than you realize. An LBKA since 1994, Register well remembers the difficult process of tearing down his old thought patterns and rebuilding his sense of self-worth after losing his leg. His amputation destroyed his lifelong dream of competing in the Olympics, leaving him without a goal to focus on and no clear definition of what it meant to be successful.
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Amputee Coalition Conference: 6 Don’t-Miss Sessions
The Amputee Coalition has released the preliminary schedule for 2020 National Conference, and we’re pleased to find a number of familiar faces and themes on the slate. A good number of the sessions will be led by people who’ve appeared recently in Amplitude‘s pages. Several others cover subjects we’re keenly interested in and have written...
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Tokyo 2021: Lacey Henderson Looks Ahead
When we spoke to Lacey Henderson back on March 19, the Paralympics were still supposedly going to be held on schedule in August 2020. She no longer had a place to train, though—her regular training facility had closed a few days earlier—and all the spring qualifying meets had been called off.
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COVID-19 Q&A: Hand-washing Hacks of Upper-limb Amputees
Before the pandemic, most of us didn't have a fully considered hand-washing strategy—or a poorly considered one, for that matter. Most likely you never gave more than a passing thought to the frequency, methods, and materials that would get the job done most effectively.
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COVID-19 Q+A: How will the pandemic affect employment for amputees?
The pandemic is pushing all of us, able-bodied or not, into unfamiliar territory—but that's often where new opportunities lie, John Robinson notes.
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Stay-at-home Workouts by Amputees, for Amputees
Without access to the gym, pool, track or weight room, it's difficult to maintain optimum levels of physical and mental health—and the longer our forced inactivity lasts, the greater the long-term health hazards.
Quarantine Dancers
What do amputees do under quarantine? We dance. Watch the video.
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Disassembly Required
How will amputees sustain community in the era of social distancing? The COVID-19 pandemic is testing the bonds that keep amputees connected.
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Coronavirus: What Amputees Know
“Amputees don’t focus on what they don’t have,” says Patrick Quinn. “They work with what they do have, and they find ways to maximize it.”