Tag: Transportation & Mobility

Medical experts widely recommend a combined program of diet and fitness to fight obesity. But when it comes to the ...

Para Tri, a sporting event for people with disabilities in the United Kingdom, has partnered with Ottobock UK, Egham, England, ...

AARP Senior Vice President Joyce Rogers released the following statement on the GOP budget agreement: "AARP disagrees with portions of ...

With fewer primary care physicians in the nation's countryside, rural healthcare in America is beginning to look a lot less ...

Showers, Deenie McKeever, and Beatty. Photograph courtesy of OPAF. OPAF and the First Clinics hosted the seventh annual McKeever's First ...

Hugh Herr. Image courtesy of UT Dallas. Last year, Kathryn Kuehn lost both hands and feet from a sudden bacterial ...

Falling is bad news for seniors-oftentimes resulting in life-changing injuries, such as hip fractures and head traumas, and an increased ...

U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) joined U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (D-PA) to introduce two bills to ...

Users can drive this brain-controlled wheelchair reliably and safely over long periods of time thanks to the incorporation of "shared ...

The Amputee Coalition announced that April is Limb Loss Awareness Month-the coalition's initiative to increase awareness about those living with ...

Two-term Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) has announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate. Duckworth will challenge incumbent Senator Mark Kirk ...

Filomena Simone, an engineer with the research team led by Professor Stefan Seelecke, is working on the prototype of the ...

Össur Americas, Foothill Ranch, California, and the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) have announced a new, multi-year global sponsorship agreement that ...

The Department of Defense (DoD) Warrior Games 2015 will take place June 19-28 at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia. DoD ...

Exclusive live coverage from Amplitude. Hale shreds the course. Photograph by Maggie Zawalski. The Fairplay ski run at Copper Mountain ...

Photographs courtesy of CAF. Nearly 500 guests came together to help raise more than $3 million for the Challenged Athletes ...

A computer-controlled actuator operates a camera that helps a robotic ankle "see" what's ahead. Photograph courtesy of Michigan Technological University. ...

Amplitude Media Group (AMG)-a leading information source for amputees, their family members, and their caregivers-is proud to announce the launch ...

The recommendation that adults should get 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week may be too ambitious for many middle-aged ...

Doctors who treat cancer are vigilant when it comes to the physical side effects of the therapies they prescribe, but ...

Researchers from the Brooke Army Medical Center's Center for the Intrepid (CFI), San Antonio, found that, for people with transtibial ...

The February 2015 issue of Prosthetics and Orthotics International (POI) is devoted to the prevention and management of foot complications ...

Sylvia M. Burwell, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced that Medicare payments to doctors, ...

U.S. Army veteran Chad Pfeifer is the first person with an amputation to play in an event sanctioned by the ...

New Print Publication Will Help Close Information Gap for Amputees Amplitude Media Group (AMG) is proud to announce the publication ...

New Print Publication Will Help Close Information Gap for Amputees Amplitude Media Group (AMG) is proud to announce the publication ...

USA Track & Field (USATF), the governing body for track and field, long-distance running, and race walking in the United ...

Providing appropriate prosthetic feet to those with limb loss is a complex and subjective process influenced by professional judgment and ...

Staff Sgt. Adam Jacks. Photograph by Maj. Eve Baker. The Marine Combat Instructor of Water Survival (MCIWS) course is a ...

Photograph courtesy of UNTHSC After diabetes took part of her left leg, Jackie Smith, 66, worried whether she would ever ...

Using data points at four, eight, and 12 months after discharge from rehabilitation, a team of researchers from Australia conducted ...

A University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) professor applied robot control theory to enable powered lower-limb prostheses to dynamically ...

On November 24, National Disability Institute (NDI) Executive Director Michael Morris issued the following statement on the Achieving a Better ...

Photograph courtesy of NC State University. Powered lower-limb prosthetic devices hold promise for improving the mobility of amputees, but errors ...

From Thanksgiving through New Year's Day, the holidays can be fun and heartwarming. They can also be exhausting and stressful. ...

Caswell and Tami share a moment before his surgery. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Scott Poe. At ...

November marks National Family Caregivers Month, a time coordinated by the National Family Caregivers Association to acknowledge family caregivers and ...

Photograph of Brentz courtesy of Karl Hugh, Mesquite ParaLong Drive local organizing committee. For the second year in a row, ...

Patients and volunteers send their thanks to program supporters. Photograph courtesy of Limbs of Freedom. Limbs of Freedom, a project ...

OPAF announced that the American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association (AOPA) is a 2015 silver-level sponsor. "AOPA is pleased to support ...

New research suggests the adage that encourages people to keep their "eyes on the prize" may be on target when ...

Doctors at three leading research institutions and the American Diabetes Association report that treating patients with prediabetes as if they ...

Photograph courtesy of OPAF. More than 100 people attended the launch of the Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation's (OPAF's) First ...

It is called "the best day in triathlon," and for good reason: camaraderie, smiles, and support abound. It is a ...

Image of the bubble actuator, embedded in a liner, that the UT Arlington research team is designing and building, courtesy ...

Despite having a leg amputation and only having two fingers on his left hand, 9-year-old Ezra Frech strives every day ...

Researchers with the Advanced Platform Technology (APT) Center at Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center (Cleveland VA), Ohio, and at ...

Ottobock announced Hilbert Potter of Louisville, Kentucky, as the August winner of the company's C-Leg 15-Year Anniversary Photo Contest. Potter ...

A team that includes U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) researchers is developing a new prosthetic foot that will give ...

New research by biomedical engineers at the University of Minnesota (U of M), Minneapolis, shows that people who practice yoga ...