Tag: Health & Medicine

On September 1, Medicare expanded its coverage of microprocessor knees (MPKs) to include K2-level amputees.  It’s a win for the ...

A research team integrated a temperature regulation system into artificial skin that could give prosthetics a lifelike temperature. The study ...

After losing his left leg below the knee in a 2022 motorcycle accident, Randy Layman carved out a unique niche ...

When Dr. Alexandra Capellini enters an exam room, patients often notice she's an amputee. When it happens, she writes, it ...

For some amputees, no distance is too great to travel for a prosthetist who makes their life work. Here's how ...

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

If you want to know your chances of being able to walk after lower-limb amputation, don’t just get your doctor’s ...

Once again, an innovative prosthetic device won a major award at the Consumer Electronics Show. Several other amputee-related products were ...

Doctors can read your chart and evaluate your symptoms. But they might not understand the physical and emotional challenges that ...

The Minneapolis VA Health Care System is recruiting amputees to participate in an innovative study of phantom limb pain, using ...

Studies suggest that emotional and psychological factors play significant roles in driving diabetes-related amputations. Yet few doctors address psychological factors ...

Melissa D'Errico may be the only amputee reiki healer on Earth. Here's why she thinks this traditional practice can help ...

Most prosthetists wish they could spend more time with amputees and serve them with greater flexibility. But the system is ...

Clinical trials are now underway to investigate psychedelics’ effects on phantom limb pain, depression, PTSD, opioid addiction, and other amputee ...

The concept of predictive coding suggests the brain builds models of perception to predict future input. When its predictions don’t ...

According to new research from physical therapist Szu-Ping Lee, externally focused instructions can help amputees get better results in PT.

The Prosthetic Sock Management Tool helps amputees maintain good socket fit while keeping skin sores, chafing, and other miseries at ...

The Podimetrics SmartMat, an early-detection system for diabetic foot ulcers, could prevent thousands of amputations every year. Here's how it ...

A new discovery dates medical amputation to more than 30,000 years ago, radically altering our understanding of how human medical ...

Now that the FDA has granted approval for some forms of this new procedure, the number of American amputees who ...

Two new studies offer strong evidence that osseointegration delivers on its promise of greater mobility, stability, and quality of life ...

Beginning this year, the VA is offering osseointegration surgery and rehabilitation to all amputee veterans. Are you a good candidate ...

Doctors and prosthetists are shifting toward a more holistic amputee care model, one that promises to deliver a better experience ...

Cassandra Quave's medical education began in childhood. Born with congenital differences in her right leg, she had a below-knee amputation ...

Advocating for yourself is hard but essential. When facing difficult decisions, you have to be ready to stand your ground ...

The coming generation of prosthetic technology promises greater affordability and ease of use for amputees. Learn about the game-changing devices ...

Veterans who have acupuncture before surgery report less pain and need far fewer opioids to manage their discomfort, according to a ...

It’s well documented that moderate exercise can reduce the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, various cancers, and other age-related ...

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

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched Care Compare, a streamlined redesign of eight existing CMS healthcare compare ...

Acknowledging health as a universal human right could galvanize people and organizations to make major improvements in health worldwide, according to ...

Although it’s possible to simulate touch by stimulating the remaining nerves in the residual limb after an amputation, such surgery is ...

As CBD products have grown in popularity and other cannabinoid products have become legal in some states, amputees who struggle with ...

Don't look back, Baby Boom amputees. Millennials and Gen Zers are nipping at your heels. “When you get a disability, ...

Many people associate peripheral arterial disease (PAD) with diabetes. But you don’t need to have diabetes to develop PAD, and ...

Every morning, Ricky Bartlett wakes up and turns on the television before doing anything else. But it's not the flat-screen ...

Whether you're a recent amputee or have been one all your life, the problem of liner odor, well—it stinks. After ...

Rural Iowa is gorgeous. But when you need to see a prosthetist to adjust your new high-tech foot, and you ...

Currently prescribed physical therapy often requires patients to complete regular exercises at home. Outside of the clinic, patients rarely receive ...

Worrying about catching an infectious disease can be stressful. Nathaniel Van Kirk, PhD; Kathryn D. Boger, PhD, ABPP; and Marni J. Chanoff, ...

A new study shows that even when the surgeon and hospital are in-network, one in five operations could result in ...

For anyone affected by childhood cancer, there is an award-winning online resource provided by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital: Together https://together.StJude.org. Image courtesy ...

A group of researchers from Clinical Research & Services/Biomechanics at Ottobock in Gottingen, Germany, and Vienna, Austria, set out to ...

Children with public insurance are slightly more likely to receive medical services that they don’t need than those with private ...

In a promising discovery that could improve the clinical delivery of insulin for people with diabetes, scientists have developed a ...

A common method to evaluate the energy cost of walking is the oxygen consumption measurement with a metabolimeter, but it ...

If you have lost a limb due to complications of diabetes, you are likely aware of the importance of diabetes ...

According to a new study, the out-of-pocket financial burden for insured working Americans is substantial and growing—especially when it comes ...

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine issued To Err Is Human, a 300-page declaration of a crisis in patient safety. ...

AARP Executive Vice President and Chief Advocacy and Engagement Officer Nancy LeaMond released the following statement on the December 12 ...