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Sarah Wall, a bilateral amputee, called ahead to confirm a resort's pool lift was functional. It wasn't. Her ADA complaint went unanswered. The escalation path that eventually got a new lift installed runs through state agencies, city coordinators, and corporate offices, not the federal process most people know about.
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Four Italian institutions published the first tissue-engineered regenerative peripheral nerve interface implanted and connected to a peripheral nerve in a preclinical model. The approach is new; clinical trials are a separate timeline.
Researchers at Zhejiang University of Technology tested a bioinspired pressure sensor with three transtibial amputees. The most practically useful result came from the running test.
A wound from a borrowed camper is what's standing between a Mississippi man and his first prosthetic. The neighbors trying to help him understand the order of operations even if they wouldn't describe it that way.
The ninth participant in University of Utah's neuroprosthetic arm research is the first to take the device home for an unsupervised year. What a home trial tests, what changed to make it possible, and where the FDA pathway currently sits.
The Challenged Athletes Foundation's first National Governing Body partnership plants a development structure inside USRowing rather than distributing individual grants alone. Ten to fifteen emerging Para rowers get funded in year one.
LIMB-art, a small North Wales company founded by former Paralympian Dr Mark Williams, reduced cover production from two days to two hours with laser-cutting equipment. It is the only company in the world doing what it does.
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