Keep up the good work Heather. There are a lot of people that owe you thanks, and i am sure there are a lot more who wish you were able to help them.

I was walking on my crutches in a shopping centre in the heart of Sydney when I observed an elderly gentleman on a mobility scooter stuck and unable to get up a step and into a shop.

a handful of people phoned the Manukau Courier offering transport and one cafe owner has offered to hold a fundraising dinner to help Mrs Hayward buy a new car.

Two doctors who amputated the healthy leg of an 86-year-old man in a social security hospital were fired today, under the charges of “serious misconduct.”

Amputations in Haiti are especially difficult for patients because so many people get around on foot or by bicycle. Sidewalks and roads are poor and wheelchairs, crutches and canes are few.

In an effort to reach my clients and share information regarding rehabilitation and exercise for amputees, I have been forced to learn quite a lot of inter-webby stuff and as I am finding more and more amputees are using the internet to stay in touch and in an increasing number of cases are also using it to make money from home.

Prosthetic organisations and charities worldwide have warned of the huge task facing Haiti as it struggles to rehabilitate hundreds of thousands of amputees resulting from the island’s earthquake.

A lot of the prosthetics available over there, Kirsten learned, are so poorly made that they cause the patient a lot of pain. Many young amputees live their lives with improper prosthetics, some that hurt them so much they cry.

Traffic Resort is a new site that says it guarantees more CONVERTING web visitors and online advertising with very little effort or cost. So I decided to put it to the test…

My first impression was the site looks professional and clean, with an attractive look and feel. It is easy to read and understand. Joining the site was easy and painless–they do offer 2 upgrade options but they are not required to gain the benefits.

Mills said she would try “anything” during training, as long as her professional partner proved it could be done on her artificial leg first.

of Port-au-Prince and at Cité Soleil.

“We expect to perform around 400 amputations over the coming days” Jacques Lorblanches, one of our surgeons from the emergency team, he said Haiti was the worst disaster scene he had ever seen. He worked in Iran after a massive earthquake in 2004. “It’s much worse here,” he said. “We have no radio, no electricity, no nothing.”

One year after becoming an amputee, Mike Schultz has overcome many challenges. Learning to walk, run, wakeboard, and race motocross, he is now about to achieve two more goals: race professional snocross and compete in the ESPN Winter X-Games.

PowerFoot One is advanced in its sensing as well as its motion. Three on board processors and 12 sensors allow the limb to make around 500 adjustments each second. These measurements are combined with a comprehensive library of known patterns of human foot movements.

Source: Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)
Date: 15 Jan 2010
Shortly after the Israeli assault on Gaza ended last January, Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHR-IL) embarked on a campaign to obtain responsibility from the Israeli Ministry of Defense for the treatment of Gaza civilians seriously injured during the assault.
According to …

The boy’s condition stemmed from an infection, according to the probable cause statement.

1/12/2010
By Randy Bennett
Almost one person a day in Barbados is losing a limb because of diabetes.
This startling statistic was revealed by Chief Operations Officer of the Barbados Diabetes Foundation, Simone McConney, during a telephone interview with the Barbados Advocate yesterday.
McConney revealed that although most of the amputations were injury-related, Barbadians …

Branch’s injury occurred at the point where the railroad tracks head through a V-shaped gulch then south into a tunnel under New Columbia. Children can often be seen playing in a grassy area above the gulch and in the vicinity of a Boys & Girls Club of New Columbia, a community center and a Rosa Parks Elementary School.

by Michele McPherson | 30th December 2009

Tauranga man Derin Greenslade is set to find out today if he is ready to start learning to walk again after he lost part of his leg in a high-speed race car crash in September.
The Tauranga businessman and accomplished entertainer has spent time in …

The increase in amputations has almost doubled over a 10 year period with up to 100 patients a week losing a leg to complications of diabetes

A HOSPITAL revealed yesterday how it had treated more British soldiers suffering lost limbs in the past 12 months than in any other year since the Second World War.