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 National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics brought O&P practitioners to Capitol Hill for a second straight year. Eli Park unpacks the active legislative issues and what they mean for patients on the other end of coverage decisions.
An O&P researcher argues in September's O&P EDGE that the field's biggest access problem isn't a device problem. Eli Park looks at what the treatment reach for phantom limb pain actually shows.
Rochester Institute of Technology researchers integrated three previously separate prosthetics R&D functions into a single prototype for finger and hand prostheses. What the integration step means, and why it is harder than proving each piece independently.
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