Two new studies offer strong evidence that osseointegration delivers on its promise of greater mobility, stability, and quality of life for amputees.
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Amputee Yoga Brings Liberation, Says Arpita Roy
“The real meaning of yoga,” writes Arpita Roy, “is deliverance from contact with pain and sorrow.” Roy embodies that definition as a bilateral amputee yoga teacher with a burgeoning online following. She’s been making headlines recently in her native India, where attitudes toward disability remain decidedly narrow. Because of the stigma surrounding limb difference, it...
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Osseointegration Tales: Munya Mahiya
If you were going to design an ideal candidate for osseointegration (or OI) surgery, they might look something like Munya Mahiya. You’d create somebody young, athletic, and healthy; somebody who’d tried and failed, over a long period of time and in multiple iterations, to find a socket prosthesis that worked; somebody with solid insurance coverage;...