Tag: Sports & Recreation

Sports and physical functioning of children with amputations were significantly worse after amputations near the knee when compared with ankle-level ...

By Élan Young While many people drift aimlessly through life, those who discover their passion and sense of purpose bring ...

By Rick Bowers Neal Seigfried was thinking of helping his fellow amputees when he asked his friends to donate to ...

Brazilian athlete and bilateral lower-limb amputee Adriele Silva, 31, looks forward to crossing the finish line at mile 26.2 of ...

Image courtesy of Challenged Athletes Foundation. As part of the Challenged Athletes Foundation’s (CAF’s) 25th anniversary celebration, the 2018 Aspen ...

The 35th Adaptive Sports USA Junior Nationals was held in Fort Wayne, Indiana, July 22-27. Traveling from 31 states, 220 ...

Sasser tests the prosthetic ankle. Photograph courtesy of Vanderbilt University. The Vanderbilt University lab of Michael Goldfarb, PhD, has completed ...

The fourth annual Angel City Games will be held June 21-24 at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). The event will offer ...

Although life in the fast lane can be a lot of fun, it can also be hazardous.

Although life in the fast lane can be a lot of fun, it can also be hazardous.

Don’t Let Amputation Lead to Isolation

Costa, right, with a First Swim participant. Photograph courtesy of OPAF. The Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation (OPAF) named Mabio ...

The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) announced unprecedented financial support through its annual grant programs, which provide financial assistance for adaptive ...

Registration is now through April 13 for the Turnstone Endeavor Games, an opportunity for athletes with physical disabilities to participate ...

Adults who have undergone successful cancer treatment years or decades ago become fatigued more quickly than their peers who don't ...

US Nordic skier Oksana Masters has been voted the Allianz Athlete of the Month for January. Masters dominated the women's ...

The Hanger Charitable Foundation, Austin, Texas, has completed its third and final round of 2017 grant awards, giving $140,900 to five non-profit ...

The Amputee Coalition announced that John Register and William Passig Perno, MBA, have been named to the board of directors ...

PYEONGCHANG 2018 Taking the Chill Out of Winter

The Benefits of Prosthetic Maintenance

Curbell Plastics Inc., Orchard Park, New York, sponsored Orthotic and Prosthetic Activities Foundation (OPAF) First Dance and First Stride events ...

To mark the United Nations Day of Persons with Disabilities, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and its development arm the ...

Athletes, supporters, fundraisers, volunteers, and more than 50 sponsors participated in the 24th annual Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) Aspen Medical ...

The Hanger Charitable Foundation, Austin, Texas, has completed its second round of 2017 grant awards, giving $56,500 to six nonprofit organizations, as ...

Army Spc. Stephanie Morris added a gold medal in discus, a silver in shot put, and a bronze in handcycle ...

Roughly 42,000 spectators and athletes from around the world attended the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida, in September. ...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded $8 million in grants for adaptive sports programs that will benefit ...

The Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation (OPAF) recently named new members to its advisory board: Adrianne Haslet, professional ballroom dancer ...

Nearly 100 people attended an Össur-hosted night at the Louisville Bats vs. Indianapolis Indians minor league baseball game during the ...

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games will feature 4,400 athletes who will compete ...

Education + Persistence = Authorization

Health Insurance, Healthcare Costs, and Threats to Your Financial Future

The Cheetah prosthetic running blade, developed by Össur, Reykjavik, Iceland, is featured in an exhibition at the John F. Kennedy ...

Jody Mitic takes in a large, almost exaggerated, breath of fresh air as he sits in an open expanse near ...

Photograph courtesy of R.J. Hartbeck. Össur, Reykjavik, Iceland, announced that Alexander Schwartz, a bilateral amputee who was born with fibular ...

The Angel City Games, an adaptive sports festival in the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, held its third annual event ...

World and regional records held by athletes competing in the T43/F43 (bilateral below the knee lower limb amputations) and T42/F42 ...

Each year, hundreds of people with lower-limb loss participate in the Össur Running & Mobility Clinics presented across the United ...

On June 22, Paralympic sprinter Patrick "Blake" Leeper became the first person with bilateral lower-limb amputations to compete against able-bodied ...

Image courtesy of ROMP.   The Range of Motion Project (ROMP) announced a climbing challenge during July for their organization ...

The annual Angel City Games will be held June 22-25 on the campus of the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). ...

Registration is open for the 18th Annual University of Central Oklahoma (UCO) Endeavor Games, an opportunity for athletes with physical ...

The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) distributed $3.7 million in grants to 2,448 recipients in 42 countries and across 9 sports ...

Eric M. Miller, a sophomore mechanical engineering major at Pennsylvania State (Penn State) Berks qualified for the American Society of ...

Touch is normally active, resulting from self-motion. Merkel afferents (top right, green and magenta) "fired" action potentials (white) during both ...

Current stiffness and height recommendations of running-specific prostheses aim to mitigate kinematic asymmetries for athletes with unilateral transtibial amputations. However, ...

Image by Iowa State University. If your New Year's resolution was to exercise more in 2017, chances are you've already ...

The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) received a $50,000 donation from Sycuan Casino, San Diego, on February 19. Since 2012, the ...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is providing up to $8 million in grants to fund adaptive sports programs ...