Tag: Transportation & Mobility

Photograph courtesy of BAMC. Staff Sgt. Michael Smith lost his arm and nearly his life to a hit and run ...

Exclusive live coverage from Amplitude. Winter the dolphin made an appearance at the blue carpet event. Photographs by Laura Fonda ...

Paralympian Richard Browne shaved three-tenths of a second off of his own 200-meter T44 (single, transtibial amputation or athletes who ...

The Ridiculous Obstacle Challenge (ROC) 5k has pledged $100,000 to the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) Operation Rebound program using a ...

This year, thousands of people in communities across the country will Join the Millions in the fight to Stop Diabetes® ...

Moise Brutus speaks to Össur employees. Photograph courtesy of Össur. Moise Brutus, a triple amputee collegiate cyclist, was surprised with ...

WWAST travels the country hosting high-spirited and interactive exhibition games to bring a message of resiliency to communities. Photograph courtesy ...

The preview issue of Amplitude has been printed and will be sent the first week of September with the current ...

On August 23, Kim De Roy, CPO, PT, set a world record by an athlete with a transtibial amputation at ...

Working-age adults with disabilities who do not get any aerobic physical activity are 50 percent more likely than their active ...

Running May Reduce Risk of Death for Amputees Regardless of Duration, Speed Running for only a few minutes a day ...

R&D Magazine announced that Hugh Herr, PhD, is the winner of its 14th Innovator of the Year Award. The award ...

Dudley S. Childress, PhD, passed away on August 6, after a long illness. He was 79. Childress was born on ...

The preview issue of Amplitude, magazine will be published this month and will be mailed with the September issue of ...

A team of researchers from the Netherlands examined the use of external lateral stabilization in people with lower-limb amputations. Their ...

Celebrations of the July 26, 1990, signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by President George H. Bush are ...

Adults with a disability are more likely to be obese or extremely obese than those without a disability, according to ...

A researcher from TSRHC's Movement Science Laboratory times a camper's as she runs. Photography courtesy of the Dallas Zoo. Children ...

Posted July 9, 2014 Braylon O'Neill does relay race with his dad at Össur Mobility Clinic. Photograph courtesy of Össur ...

Studies Show More Sprawl Associated with Higher Incidence of Poor Health Outcomes Posted June 24, 2014 People who live in ...

A Message from the Contributing Editor Posted June 23, 2014 Hello. My name is Rick Bowers, and I was recently ...

Posted June 19, 2014 The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of Western New York Healthcare System, Buffalo, held a ...

McCaffrey gets familiar with the 2014 U.S. Army Warrior Trials cycling route at the U.S. Military Academy. The event is ...

Amputee Empowerment Partners National Coordinator Carrie Davis, The Buried Life's Ben Nemtin, and Torri Biddle give the thumbs-up sign. Posted ...

Posted June 13, 2014 Ottobock, Minneapolis, has designed a fitness app with a self-managed workout regimen specifically to support lower-limb ...

Posted June 10, 2014 The Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team (WWAST) traveled to Bowie, Maryland, on June 7, to play ...

Posted June 5, 2014 The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) released a new video webcast ...

Posted May 30, 2014 A team of scientists from Israel and Albania say they have found the primary source of ...

Photograph by Michael Scott Slosar, courtesy of Toyota. Posted May 23, 2014 Adaptive Action Sports (AAS), co-founded by Paralympian snowboarder ...

Posted April 4, 2014 U.S. Paralympic snowboarder Evan Strong earned March Athlete of the Month recognition from the United States ...

Posted February 28, 2014 Max Ortiz Catalan, a doctoral student in the biomedical signals and systems research group at Chalmers ...