Mark Williams believes he wouldn’t be here today if not for the UK’s National Health Service. “They saved my life when I was a boy,” says Williams, a former Paralympic swimmer who lost his left leg at age 10 in a car-bicycle collision. “From the paramedics who came to my accident and whisked me to...
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1st Person: Restoring a Sense of Balance
It’s been a while since we checked in with Angie Heuser. Quick refresher: Angie became an LAKA in December 2018, learned to surf about a year later, and ran her first 10K as an amputee a month or so after that. She also raises money (and lifts spirits) for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. A...
Prosthetics Manufacturers Shift to PPE Production
Companies all over the world are shifting from prosthetics production to the manufacture of 3D-printed personal protective equipment (PPE) for nurses, doctors, and other health care workers.
COVID-19 Q&A: Hand-washing Hacks of Upper-limb Amputees
Before the pandemic, most of us didn't have a fully considered hand-washing strategy—or a poorly considered one, for that matter. Most likely you never gave more than a passing thought to the frequency, methods, and materials that would get the job done most effectively.
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Going the Distance on Social Distance
Sometimes it feels like we've been living in quarantine forever. To put things in perspective, we rounded up a few cases where people spent extremely long spans in isolation and managed to stay sane.
Quarantine Dancers
What do amputees do under quarantine? We dance. Watch the video.