Tag: health

As a child, Lakeisha Jacobs didn’t get sound advice about eating well and staying fit. After losing her left leg ...

In a perfect world, amputees’ unaffected limbs would be exempt from bruises, sprains, strains, and breaks. But minor injuries do ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have tested a groundbreaking cell therapy to toughen up residual-limb skin —and they’re seeking amputee ...

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 ...

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

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

Almost everyone, whether disabled or nondisabled, faces hurdles to staying physically fit. But amputees and other people with disabilities face ...

The new Sports Science and High Performance Lab will gather advanced data to help adaptive athletes optimize performance at every ...

Everyone said losing a leg didn’t have to slow me down. But staying active wasn't easy. Did I do something ...

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 ...

My accident left me with two badly damaged legs. Should I try to save them? Or would amputation set me ...

A new paper in the Journal of Gait and Posture analyzes the gait characteristics of 10 above-knee amputees, pre- and ...

When an indifferent medical clinician causes you to doubt or discount your symptoms, you’ve been affected by medical gaslighting. What ...

A new paper in the Journal of Gait and Posture analyzes the gait characteristics of 10 above-knee amputees, pre- and ...

How can amputees get better sleep? The lack of solid research leaves everyone in the dark. We don't have a ...

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

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

"The real meaning of yoga," writes Arpita Roy, "is deliverance from contact with pain and sorrow." Roy embodies that definition ...

If you were going to design an ideal candidate for osseointegration (or OI) surgery, they might look something like Munya ...