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Segway-equipped amputees in physical therapy at the Army Medical Center train on their new rides as part of an informal club at the facility. On Fridays, they wheel their machines as a group around the site in Washington. (CNN -- Law)
Back To White Mountain May 9, 2008
The man Priest is today - a successful Vacaville small-business owner who builds and fits prosthetics for amputees - is irrevocably tied to the plane crash and its aftermath ... Kids are far more resilient emotionally than their parents give them credit for, said Donnie, who has since spent time with several young amputees ... "Officially I was studying engineering," he said, "but I was really studying the local bars." It took him years, but eventually he found his mtier: He learned to build... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
People With Less Education And Lower Income Spend More Time In Pain, Study Finds May 3, 2008
24, 2007) Phantom limb pain occurs in at least 90% of limb amputees. In a new study, one group of amputees viewed a reflective image of themselves in a mirror (mirror group); a second group viewed a covered. (Science Daily)
New Model For Embryonic Limb Development Revealed May 2, 2008
ScienceDaily (May 1, 2008) A study led by a researcher at the University of Southern California has found a new model to explain how signals between cells in the embryo control limb development. The study, which will be published in the May issue of the journal Nature and now available online, found that secreted growth factors at the distal tip of the embryonic limb act as instructive molecules that control the pattern of bones along the length of the limb in an animal model. (Science Daily)
Miss Landmine, the prettiest amputee in Angola Apr 23, 2008
There are 25,000 amputees among the country's 63,000 victims of landmines and blasts from unexploded ordnance left after 30 years of civil war. Up to 1 million landmines remain of those buried along the border with Thailand after the invading Vietnamese left in 1989, and 400,000 are planted elsewhere in the country. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Humbled at Walter Reed Apr 21, 2008
Captain Sarah Mitsch, a Weymouth girl, is an occupational therapist and works with amputees. She was in Iraq, as was Major Matt St. Laurent, a therapist from New Hampshire, and so they carry an unspoken bond with the wounded warriors they tend. (Boston Globe)
Rearming America Apr 21, 2008
Today, that context is what every American politician now calls "our brave men and women in uniform." The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, waged in large part through , have produced nearly 1,000 U.S. military amputees. Many other service members have lost eyesight or suffered burns or spinal-cord damage. (Slate)
DoD News Briefing with Dr... Apr 19, 2008
" Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates April 16, 2008 Secretary of Defense Special Reports Subscribe U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) News Transcript On the Web: Media contact: +1 (703) 697-5131/697-5132 Public contact: or +1 (703) 428-0711 +1 Presenter: Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs S. Ward Casscells and Surgeon General of the U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker April 17, 2008 DoD News Briefing with Dr. S. Ward Casscells... (DOD DefenseLINK -- News)
The Mirror Cure for Phantom Pain Apr 17, 2008
Phantom limbs (an often painful sensation that an amputated limb is still part of the body) affect approximately 40 to 80 percent of all amputees ... The researchers randomly assigned 22 lower-limb amputees with phantom limb pain to one of three groups ... (Obviously, amputees can't move their missing foot, but they can move their phantom foot. (Scientific American)
Survey Finds 98% Of Historians Consider Bush A 'Failure'... Apr 15, 2008
" ---- Oh yeah, if the Bush family thugs get their way, they'll erase all the terrible things this family has done to our nation, constitution, and people and blame it all on democrats that were never involved with any of his shenanigans because of all the closed door meetings with top GOP dictators. Liberal historians are "Liberal" because they think for themselves and they consider humanity important. "Conservatives" which the GOP is no longer described as, tend to give Not a ratsass about... (The Drudge Report)
Exhibit highlights victims of drug trade Apr 12, 2008
Profits earned by Rojas from his magnificent photographic series will help to support his model and other amputees. In proximity to David is the installation Quiebramales which, according to Rojas, translates to Evil Breaker. (Woodlands Villager, TX)
Gator blood might aid humans Apr 7, 2008
Possible drugs include creams that could be used to treat ulcers of diabetes patients or prevent infections in amputees, and pills to fight internal infections and bacteria. Researchers caution, however, that gator blood shouldn't be ingested or handled directly by people. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Gator blood a potential lifesaver Apr 7, 2008
Possible drugs include creams that could be used to treat ulcers of diabetes patients or prevent infections in amputees, and pills to fight internal infections and bacteria. Researchers say they've determined that the proteins found in alligator blood can fight 23 types of bacteria, nearly three times as many as the proteins found in human blood. (The Palm Beach Post)
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Players could be wheelchair-bound or amputees. Johnson is committed to public service and feels that public service is what SSA is all about. (Searcy Daily Citizen, AR)
In his Stafford office, Greg Wright helps patients get on their feet again, literally Apr 6, 2008
Few of them are military amputees, because they're served by the government. Date published: 4/6/2008. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
Former Lebanon man finds life's work in Africa Apr 3, 2008
Surviving is a particularly tough struggle for women amputees. They cannot count on marrying and being supported by a spouse. (Lebanon Express, OR)
A former Marine with misgivings about Bush and the bloodshed in Iraq Apr 1, 2008
Most above-knee amputees need an average of 12 to 15 months of rehabilitation, said Jennifer Town, director of the San Diego Naval Medical Center's C5 Program. She oversees an array of specialized care for amputees and other severely injured troops from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars ... Amputees and other seriously wounded troops are allowed to redeploy to a war zone only if they insist on it, the Pentagon said. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
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Some Western visitors to Old Tibet remarked on the number of amputees to be seen. Since it was against Buddhist teachings to take human life, some offenders were severely lashed and then left to God in the freezing night to die. (International Herald Tribune)
Sierra Leone courts narrow focus Mar 27, 2008
James Pombo, who lost his hand during Sierra Leone's civil war, is pictured at a camp for amputees in April 2006. . (MSNBC -- International)
Virtual massage 'could relieve phantom limb pain for amputees' Mar 24, 2008 For veterans, the Iraq war remains constant theme in their lives Mar 23, 2008 For amputees, an unlikely painkiller: mirrors Mar 21, 2008 Massage illusion helps amputees Mar 21, 2008 Notebook: A War That Can't Be Forgotten Mar 20, 2008 Battle on the Home Front Mar 20, 2008 Wounds of war bring home new ways of healing Mar 19, 2008 Soldier strives to recoverfrom loss of left foot Mar 19, 2008 New life & limbs Mar 17, 2008 Self-Experimenters: Self-Styled Cyborg Dreams of Outwitting Superintelligent Machines Mar 10, 2008 FIGHTING FOR LIFE Mar 7, 2008 26 Awesome Medical Breakthroughs Mar 7, 2008 Principal shares his tale of dolphin rescue Mar 4, 2008 Immigration, health care on lawmakers list this week Mar 4, 2008 Mesa amputee recognized for athletic accomplishment Mar 4, 2008 Amputee's best friend is missing a limb, too Mar 4, 2008 Kenya:How Annan and Kikwete Sealed the Deal Mar 1, 2008 Rivals step up war over 'words' Feb 22, 2008 Nature Of Consciousness: How Activity Of Single Neurons In Human Brain Reflect Conscious Perception Feb 20, 2008 Life in mono Feb 19, 2008 Knee dynamo taps 'people power' Feb 8, 2008 Amputee Action Feb 8, 2008 A grim delight Jan 24, 2008 The Daily Break Jan 24, 2008 Snow for all Jan 21, 2008 Congressman scolds TSA on bus safety Jan 20, 2008 National Renal Alliance sues Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia Jan 17, 2008 Dr. P.K. Sethi, 80; helped create prosthetic leg culturally appropriate for India Jan 9, 2008 Sports letters Jan 7, 2008 Comment: PM must treat war casualties better Jan 7, 2008 TOP TEN STORIES ... Bass Tournament at Toledo ... Strike Force preps Patriot Brigade ... Ex-Insurance chief Wooley, others facing ethics charges ... No bail for misdemeanors? Lafayette marshal objects ... COMMUNITY CALENDAR ... 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Gen. Daniel Bolger along with Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, Senior Military Assistant to Gates. TOP TEN STORIES Jan 5, 2008 We Sacrificed 4,000 To Vindicate 3,000; Seeking Psychological Victory in the 'Global War on Terror' Jan 2, 2008 Mirror therapy eases ache of missing limb for patients Jan 2, 2008 Seeking Psychological Victory in the 'Global War on Terror' Jan 1, 2008 Women go broke, sideline lives for maimed vets Dec 29, 2007 Mothers, Wives Of Wounded Troops Upend Lives Dec 29, 2007 Third World practice Dec 23, 2007 'I still wonder how he didn't perish in that water' Dec 23, 2007 4th Brigade rolls home Dec 17, 2007 Researchers Can Read Thoughts To Decipher What A Person Is Actually Seeing Dec 12, 2007 Disabled Iraq War vet rekindles athletic drive in Paralympics bid Dec 10, 2007 Political Grapevine Nov 28, 2007 Surgery Restores Sense of Touch in 2 Amputees:... Nov 28, 2007 Amputees 'regain sense of touch' Nov 28, 2007 Women happier when babies delivered by midwives: Statscan survey Nov 28, 2007 Feelings restored in lost limbs Nov 28, 2007 Imagining a bionic future Nov 27, 2007 Scientists help amputees to feel with their prosthetic limbs Nov 27, 2007 Emotional trek to Sierra crash site for man who lost legs at age 10 Nov 26, 2007 Phantom Limb Pain May Be Reduced By Simple Mirror Treatment Nov 25, 2007 More than self defense Nov 23, 2007 The weapon that keeps taking Nov 23, 2007 Mirror fools phantom limb pain Nov 23, 2007 More Women Are Choosing Double Mastectomy Even When Breast Cancer Is Confined To A Single Breast Nov 20, 2007 Bringing war experience home with care Nov 15, 2007 Blinded by war: Injuries send troops into darkness Nov 14, 2007 Thinking Makes It So: Science Extends Reach Of Prosthetic Arms Nov 13, 2007 VA system ailing Nov 11, 2007 New Technology Can Be Operated By Thought Nov 10, 2007 Physicians predict veterans' healthcare costs will top $650 billion Nov 9, 2007 President Bush Visits Wounded Warriors at Center for the Intrepid Nov 9, 2007 Bush pledges to make medical system more responsible to injured veterans Nov 9, 2007 For some amputees, future is in the U.S. army Nov 8, 2007 Bionic Brain Closer To Reality Nov 7, 2007 Heather Mills interview Transcript Nov 1, 2007
Virtual massage 'could relieve phantom limb pain for amputees ... Amputees who experience phantom limb pain could find relief in a surprisingly simple way - by watching someone else rub their hands together ... Two amputees watched their normal hand being prodded, and both felt the remarkable sensation of "being prodded" in their missing hand. (Daily Mail)
US sex-abstinence drive 'flawed' Mar 23, 2008
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Veterans organizations have legislative agendas aimed at caring for those who have worn the uniform, including quality health care at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other hospitals, plus programs tailored to help amputees and those suffering from post-traumatic stress. John Getz, of Reinholds, Lancaster County, the state commander of the VFW, recently left for Iraq on a mission to reach out to members of the Pennsylvania National Guard currently deployed. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
He remembered reading in graduate school a paper by Dr. V.S. Ramachandran that talked about an unusual treatment for amputees suffering "phantom limb pain," using a simple $20 mirror ... Paupore and 17 other amputees who joined Tsao's mirror therapy trial were randomly assigned to one of three groups ... Phantom limb pain plagues as many as 95 percent of amputees, Tsao said. (CNN -- US)
Amputees can feel relief from phantom limb pain just by watching someone else rub their hands together, a study says ... UK experts said this kind of therapy may help amputees, as long as they can go along with the illusion ... Two amputees had their normal hand touched while using the mirror box, and felt the sensation of being touched on their missing hand. (BBC News)
I remember walking past such a line one day, after a unit Id embedded with often in Baghdad suffered their worst single day of losses: nine soldiers killed and more injured, including three quadruple amputees. First I walked past the emergency room where the survivors were crowded waiting for news. (CBS News)
" Most charities that serve soldiers, veterans, and their families have achieved spectacular growth in their donations. Among their accomplishments: The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, in New York, was able to collect $40-million in just nine months to build a state-of-the-art physical-rehabilitation facility for amputees, which opened in January 2007 at Brooke Army Medical Center, in Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Bill White, the fund's president, says the fund and its two affiliated nonprofit... (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)
This wars more than 500 amputees have also driven forward prosthetic research, including advances in materials such as anatomic socket designs and silicone gel liners. The real game-changer in this field is the biohybrid concept that treats the patients tissue and the prosthesis as one continuous arm or leg. (MSNBC -- International)
Gannaway's son is one of 555 amputees to have been treated in Walter Reed's amputee-care program through March 1, since the first troops marched on Baghdad five years ago today. Patricia Cassimatis, a spokeswoman for Walter Reed, said 752 amputees have been treated at all Army facilities since the war began ... Many of the amputees are on outpatient status, living near the Washington, D.C., military hospital and returning for regular care, Cassimatis said. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Ferguson quickly achieved goal No. 1, concluding the nine-month regimen for AKs ("above-knee" amputees) in six short months ... " BEGINNING AGAIN So he's decided to return to Walter Reed. Later this month, Ferguson and his family will load their Suburban and drive to his childhood home in Minneapolis, where the two older children will stay with their grandmother. Then he and Danielle and their 1-year-old daughter will continue on to Washington D.C., where he'll check back in to Walter Reed in... (Anchorage Daily News)
He says the short-term benefits could be smarter prosthetics for amputees, infrared-based sensory systems for the blind and brain implants to treat Parkinson's disease. an anthropology professor at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, who has followed Warwick's work since 2004, says she "met people very fascinated with what he was doing." She adds: "I also met engineers who didn't think what he was doing was real science.". (Scientific American)
In the second half, the emphasis shifts to amputees making remarkable progress at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in D.C., and the movie becomes emotional and even uplifting, as well as patriotic. We get to know Army Spc. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Robotic ankle will aid Iraq amputees. The Hearing Pill helps prevent hearing loss. (Newsmax)
The prosthesis has contributed to groundbreaking changes in the development of human prosthetics and encourages amputees across the country, he said, citing the example of a young Indiana girl, who was born without her right leg. After a few visits, Winter became the girl's inspiration. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Bob Kressig, D-Cedar Falls, has been concerned some amputees aren't seeing sufficient coverage by their insurance companies when they need prosthetics. He is looking at a proposal that would set up a commission to consider possible insurance mandates. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Lewis had both hands and feet amputated about three years ago but came back to bowl, dance and mentor other amputees ... For the past two years, he has been a peer visitor to new amputees ... Most were amputees who had given up and spent time just lying in bed until hearing or seeing Lewis' story, he said. (AZCentral -- News)
"There's more of us. Diabetes and obesity are increasing. Those are the trends."Also, Schuch said, battlefield medicine has improved so drastically that soldiers end up as amputees after injuries that would have killed troops in World War II. A program manager for the military's joint amputation care system said 800 service members had lost limbs in Afghanistan and Iraq since the end of 2001 ... As a pair of amputees, their bond grew ... "People, they worry about things. Dogs don't worry. That's... (News & Observer)
He then said that Kenya's crisis, which had caused shortages in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Southern Sudan, DRC Congo and some parts of northern Tanzania had shown that the region was interdependent: "Kenya and the concomitant difficulties throughout the whole region have shown that the head cannot be independent of the neck; the neck cannot be independent of the chest; the chest cannot be independent of the abdomen; the abdomen cannot be independent of the limbs; and vice versa. Of course, you can... (allAfrica.com)
Clinton, answering the same question, described a wrenching scene at a military medical center in San Antonio, watching a soldier whose face was disfigured from a bomb blast speak on behalf of the amputees being treated at the facility. "You know, the hits I've taken in life are nothing compared to what goes on every single day in the lives of people across our country," Clinton said, her voice softening with emotion. (Boston Globe)
19, 2008) An international team of scientists led by a University of Leicester researcher has carried out a scientific study into the realm of consciousness. The scientists have made a significant step into the understanding of conscious perception, by showing how single neurons in the human brain reacted to certain images. (Science Daily)
It is the auditory equivalent of the illusion experienced by amputees - the feeling that the missing limb is still attached. My brain is generating sound to compensate for the lack of auditory activity in my ear. (Guardian Unlimited)
The first people to benefit could be amputees who are being fitted with increasingly sophisticated prosthetics. "All of the new developments in prosthetics require large power budgets," Dr Douglas Weber of the University of Pittsburgh, and one of the authors of the paper, told BBC News. (BBC News -- Science)
As a result, DiMasso, 46, of Southington, was limping and uncomfortable Thursday when he joined about two dozen other amputees on the steps of the state Capitol in Hartford for a rally demanding better health insurance coverage for prosthetics. The rally was part of a multi-state effort by advocates for amputees to force insurance companies to pay the full cost of fitting and maintaining prosthetics ... Without such a requirement, amputees are often forced to hold fundraisers, dig into... (FOX61, CT)
And if you can no longer exercise your imagination because it has atrophied, you have reality television and books about multiply abused amputees because it's great to stare at them because they're animals and your life is so miserable that you really need programmes about people who are excessively miserable to make you feel better. But use of the imagination means that you can make your life or someone else's life better and that they're humans with interior lives and not just somebody on... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
- During the American Revolution, Congress raised eight companies of soldiers composed entirely of cripples, invalids, amputees, and the blind. It was our contingency plan in the event that the French got uppity. (Daily Iowan, IA)
For instance, two-track, are skis that can be used by double amputees; four track refers to skis plus two outrigger poles with small skis on the bottom; three track is a single ski and two outriggers and can be used by single-leg amputees. There is also a mono-ski, a ski with a seat attached that a person with strong upper body strength can use with outriggers; and a bi-ski is pair of skis with a seat attached that has more stability than a mono-ski and can also be used with the assistance of a... (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday that federal employees who are blind, deaf, paralyzed, mentally disabled or amputees are leaving the government at twice the rate at which they were hired. In 2005, for example, 810 disabled workers were hired government-wide, while 2,200 left. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Dialysis patients, who must undergo up to 20 hours of extensive treatment every week just to stay alive, often are amputees or blind and find it difficult to travel, he said. Patients often purchase expensive Preferred Provider Organization, and Point of Service health plans in exchange for the ability to choose their providers. (Atlanta Business Chronicle, GA)
Sethi "helped amputees to continue their lives without the feeling of inadequacy, for which he shall always be remembered," said Indian President Pratibha Patil, according to wire service reports. When Sethi first began working in orthopedics in the 1960s, the only prosthetic available was the so-called solid-ankle-cushion-heel foot, designed in the West and meant for people who wore shoes and sat in chairs. (Los Angeles Times)
How must the amputees reading your newspaper have felt at this ill-advised stab at humor. I would like to see Kaeding apologize for being thoughtless. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Sports)
The need for this has been highlighted by the behaviour of some civilians, who complained that the presence of Hedley Court amputees at the nearby public baths was spoiling their enjoyment. Parry's fine campaign seems to deserve the support even of those who oppose British commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Guardian Unlimited)
Several of the role-players are amputees and are fit with moulage. Moulage is the art of applying mock injuries for the purpose of training Emergency Response Teams and other medical and military personnel. (Leesville Daily Leader, LA)
First, of course, the debit side must be noted, foremost the human cost, to date: about 4,000 dead American troops, about 30,000 injured, perhaps half seriously -- including more than 600 amputees and traumatic brain injuries. Many more Iraqis have been killed. (Human Events Online)
There are 2 million amputees in the United States, a number that has increased markedly in recent years with the rise in diabetes ... Although there are no hard numbers, experts believe phantom limb pain afflicts from 10 percent to 50 percent of amputees ... The study examined 18 veterans, all leg amputees suffering from phantom limb pain. (SunSpot.net)
First, of course, the debit side must be noted, foremost the human cost, to date: about 4,000 dead American troops, about 30,000 injured, perhaps half seriously -- including more than 600 amputees and traumatic brain injuries ... First, of course, the debit side must be noted, foremost the human cost, to date: about 4,000 dead American troops, about 30,000 injured, perhaps half seriously -- including more than 600 amputees and traumatic brain injuries. (Townhall.com)
So far, about 600 burn victims and 250 amputees have been sent here to recover at the Army's only burn center and at an amputee rehabilitation program set up since the start of the. Their injuries will take multiple surgeries and months or years of recovery and rehabilitation. (CNN -- US)
So far about 600 burn victims and 250 amputees have been sent to recover at the Army's only burn center and at an amputee rehab program set up since the start of the Iraq war. The program has morphed from a few computers in converted conference rooms to a catchall program for families of the wounded. (KWTX.com, TX)
Seeing multiple amputees is disquietingly commonplace. He saw broken femurs left untreated. (Gillette News-Record, WY)
He doesn't like to complain but, like many amputees, he still experiences phantom pain in his missing feet and shins. At first, his wife didn't want him to hunt again and refused to make more traditional clothes. (Globe and Mail)
Mike Szymanski, a Vietnam vet who recently organized a support group for amputees. "The guys coming home now -- they've had different experiences than we did back then, but a lot of the same things are there," Szymanski says. (Anchorage Daily News)
Potential applications of this discovery include the development of Neural Prosthetic devices to be used by paralysed patients or amputees. A patient with a lesion in the spinal cord (as with the late Christopher Reeves), can still think about reaching a cup of tea with his arm, but this order is not transmitted to the muscles. (Science Daily)
"I'd love to have my leg back," says Stockwell, who also learned how to fit other amputees with prosthetics. "But the things I have been able to do have been valuable to me. I live a great life, I have no regrets and don't want to go back to what was before. "This happened for a reason, and it really doesn't matter if I have a leg or not I can still do whatever I want to do. (USA Today -- Sports)
The Daily Telegraph reports the vets were amputees and needed to use the 25-meter pool because the one at the military hospital was not big enough. However, two women demanded the vets be kicked out because they had not paid to swim and had no right to close off a section of the pool. (Fox News)
Scientist: Surgery Restores Sense of Touch in Two Amputees ... A bionic hand that restores the sense of touch to amputees could soon be developed thanks to new research that has enabled two patients to feel sensations, new research shows ... As well as giving amputees back their sense of touch, the breakthrough opens up the possibility that bionic limbs could be controlled more precisely through the power of thought. (Fox News)
Amputees 'regain sense of touch ... Dr Todd Kuiken, who led the research, said it could pave the way to providing amputees with the ability to feel what he touches with a prosthetic hand as if it were his own hand. (BBC News -- Health)
Using an innovative surgical technique, researchers have rerouted major nerves to give amputees greater control of prosthetic arms and unwittingly restored the sense of touch in their phantom limbs. Canada and China have come up with a plan to ensure that their consumer products are safe and to make sure problems can be dealt with more effectively when they arise. (CBC News)
WASHINGTON: Amputees could "feel" their lost arms and hands after scientists reconnected the nerves to their chests in an experiment that holds promise for providing sensation in artificial limbs, according to a report released on Monday. In two patients who had lost arms, scientists at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University rerouted to their chests the key nerves that had transferred sensation from the hand to the brain. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
At the time, 387 soldiers had returned from Iraq and Afghanistan as amputees ... Their efforts yielded two prototypes that have been tested by amputees and in virtual environments. (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
Scientists help amputees to feel with their prosthetic limbs - Yahoo ... Scientists help amputees to feel with their prosthetic limbs ... WASHINGTON (AFP) - Amputees given prosthetic limbs could soon feel with their new hands or feet, after a team of US scientists successfully rerouted two patients key nerves. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
The man Priest is today - a successful Vacaville small-business owner who builds and fits prosthetics for amputees - is irrevocably tied to the plane crash and its aftermath ... Kids are far more resilient emotionally than their parents give them credit for, said Donnie, who has since spent time with several young amputees ... "Officially I was studying engineering," he said, "but I was really studying the local bars." It took him years, but eventually he found his mtier: He learned to build... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
24, 2007) Phantom limb pain occurs in at least 90% of limb amputees according to the research ... 21, 1998) Researchers at the University of Toronto and The Toronto Hospital have discovered a biological basis for the phantom sensations that are frequently experienced on the missing limbs of amputees. (Science Daily)
" Collins said training is based on individual needs, capabilities, skill levels and age. "Our students range in years from 3 to 90, and some of our instructors are over 70," he said. "Since our primary goals are to prevent or reduce illness and disease and to promote optimum health and longevity by minimizing degeneration of body and mind, we also welcome those with limitations, such as individuals who use wheelchairs, who are amputees, who are blind, and who have maladies such as heart... (The News-Herald)
Like many amputees in our society, I was treated as a victim, given pity but not rights ... Before long, I was employed as a physiotherapist, mainly helping other amputees. (International Herald Tribune)
At least 9 out of 10 amputees report feeling severe pain sometimes in the missing limb, often the result of a sensation that the arm or leg is stuck in the wrong position. The sensation can be excruciating and pain drugs often do little to help. (India Times, India)
Similar to feelings experienced by some leg or arm amputees, these. . (Science Daily)
Mike Szymanski, a Vietnam vet who recently organized a local support group for amputees. "The guys coming home now -- they've had different experiences than we did back then, but a lot of the same things are there," Szymanski says. (Anchorage Daily News)
The Army has let several amputees stay in the ranks as well as one blind captain, who will be an instructor at West Point Military Academy after completing post-graduate education. Castro awaits word on his future; the Pentagon won't comment on his situation. (USA Today)
12, 2007) Motorized prosthetic arms can help amputees regain some function, but these devices take time to learn to use and are limited in the number of movements they provide. See also. (Science Daily)
"The VA has outstanding knowledge and services for amputees. They have an outstanding reputation for dealing with post traumatic stress disorder.". Studies show, said Woolhandler, that "the average quality of care in the VA is higher than it is in the private sector for civilians." Naturally, many veterans seek that level of care. (The Clarion-Ledger)
" Velliste and the other members of the Pittsburgh research team point out that imparting skill and dexterity to these devices will help amputees and paralyzed patients to perform everyday tasks. The animal's thoughts emitted electrical signals that were recorded by tiny electrodes that the scientists had implanted in the monkey's motor cortex. A computer-decoding algorithm translated the signals into the robotic arm and gripper's movements. In another study, a Washington University School of... (Science Daily)
Due to advances in body armor and battlefield medicine, the ratio of wounded to killed is 8 to 1, compared with 3 to 1 during the Vietnam War and 2 to 1 for World War II. The percentage of amputees is the highest since the Civil War. The analysis assumed that, at the current pace, as many as 2 million men and women will be deployed to Iraq through the end of the conflict. (Boston Globe)
The Center for the Intrepid makes use of the best available technologies to give severely injured service members and amputees the opportunity to lead full and productive lives. That's the mission. (White House News Releases)
"At the rehabilitation center, Bush stopped at a "gait lab," where amputees with protheses learn to walk on gravel, artificial turf and other surfaces. A pool with a simulated wave allows patients to practice their balance while riding tiny surf boards.Bush toured a physical therapy gym where two double amputees tossed a ball while balancing themselves on exercise balls. He talked to two servicemen with faces so burned that scarring had left them with mask-like expressions.The president also... (North County Times)
For some amputees, future is in the army: Scientific American ... For some amputees, future is in the army ... For some amputees, future is in the army USMC 1st Lt. Andrew Kinard is reflected in a mirror as he prepares to use his prosthetic legs during his rehabilitation at the Military Advanced Training Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington October 24, 2007. (Scientific American)
"The range of patients could be stroke patients, could be patients locked in with ALS, who can't move anything except for their eyes, it could be amputees-- you could use an artificial limb, it could be spinal cord injured patients that are paralyzed," he said. Cyber Kinetics, the company that makes the brain wave decoder, says they're now working on a wireless system. (NBCSandiego.com, CA)
For six years, when I lost my leg, I was the model that overcame adversity, inspired other amputees to get on with their lives. Front page of all the newspapers. (Times Online)
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