AmputeeA better kind of news desk
Reporting, real-world guides, and a little useful mischief for amputees, limb-different people, and everyone in their corner.
No inspiration-porn. We skip the sappy "overcame all odds" angle and just report the actual story.
The Amputee Coalition's Peer Visitor Network trains certified volunteers with personal limb loss experience to connect with people newly facing amputation. What the program is, how it works, who it reaches, and the honest gaps.
The most capable prosthetic devices — microprocessor knees, powered feet, myoelectric arms — carry environmental operating specifications calibrated to temperate conditions. Research Matters' August 2026 reporting on Indian engineering efforts targeting tropical-climate performance surfaces a gap that the global access literature has documented but device manufacturers have mostly left to users to manage.
The IPC classification system determines who competes against whom in para track and field — not by diagnosis, but by how impairment affects each event. An explanation of the structure, the evaluation process, and what the US entry path looks like.
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Clear, sourced starting points for the questions that get weirdly hard to ask out loud.
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