A toddler who has had both legs amputated after contracting a deadly strain of meningitis may have to leave New Zealand because her mother is …
The double amputee clocked a time of 47.04 seconds at Crystal Palace to finish well clear of Britain’s Ian Jones, whose time was 51.65 sec. …
He and his two double-amputee teammates reached the summit of the Kenyan landmark Aug. 7 — the climax of a journey meant to inspire people with …

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Patients May One Day Regrow Their Own Missing Limbs
The article describes how salamanders – which can regrow an entire limb – and other animals are providing clues to regenerating human limbs. Scientists, for instance, have discovered certain proteins and genes with key roles in regenerating lost …

A butcher has won a £250,000 payout after a series of medical blunders led to his leg being amutated.

Ian Watts from Rochester has been left severely disabled following the incident.

He was initially admitted to Medway Maritime Hospital with an infection in his little toe in 2004, which doctors said they could treat by amputation.

Although the toe was removed, Mr Watts’ condition deteriorated and his left leg below the knee had to be amputated.

Stephen Lutz is getting the chance of a lifetime…at just fourteen years old, Stephen is flying out to Los Angeles to skateboard with some of the world’s best extreme athletes at the X-Games.

Poor circulation is a major cause of non healing wounds, ulcers and chronic pain in your legs and feet. Skin ulcers develop when blood flow is no longer able to supply the nutrients and oxygen needed by the tissues. This is the result of arteries and veins that have deteriorated and lost their capacity, often as a complication to diabetes.

Some forms of vascular disease can be corrected by surgical procedures, but many cases are inoperable. If a wound or ulcer is not responding to conservative treatment, the deterioration process will continue. However, there is an effective treatment available so that you can keep your toes, feet and legs.

we know that diabetes makes you 46 times more likely you will have an amputation. Within one year after a diabetic foot amputation, 26.7% will have another amputation. Three years after the first diabetic amputation, 48.3% will have another amputation. Within 5 years of a diabetes related amputation, 60.7% will have another amputation.

Twenty years ago Ray Edwards tried to kill himself in the despair that followed the amputation of all four of his limbs.

Does It really Make a Difference How An Amputation Occurred?
Well apparently it does….Read on to make your own opinion.
“His power wheelchair, battered and broken down, lay crumpled on the side of his caregiver’s garage,” Mobility Matters reported. “At the time, that garage was the place that John called home. Often his power wheelchair served as both his transportation and his bed. But his power chair had seen its last day.”

Diabetes was prior to the war effort the number 1 cause of amputation in the western world.
The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined with the natural disasters of Cambodia, Haiti have been threatening to become number one cause.
But now Diabetes is fighting back determined to remain on top this disease is really getting under the skin of scientists and into the blood streams of far too many people.

A Baby girl 15 months old had both legs amputated in mistaken diagnosis in Cadiz hospital due to the delay in treatment.

With over 24million people in the US alone with Diabetes and a frightening statistic of 15% of those expected to suffer from the possibility of limb loss someone has finally stood up and said “hey why don’t we prevent some of this”

Insurance, welfare and court rulings should be reserved for those that have things happen to them beyond their control. If you are deliberately negligent or stupid why should you get a free ride?

Profit for privately owned companies share holders VS Limb Loss

According to DALLAS, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ –” Every week, more than 3,000 Americans lose a limb. Without insurance or sufficient coverage many of these amputees are unable to afford the expensive prosthetic arms and legs that help make it possible to resume their daily lives. ”
Wow thats, over 1 …

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.”

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.

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.

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