Medical technology has progressed to a point where soldiers suffering severe wounds are being saved, Scott said. Getting them back to a fulfilling life is the challenge of rehabilitation.

“We are bringing them back faster,” Scott said. “We are keeping them alive. Imagine these multiple injuries before; they never would have made it off the battlefield. Now we are keeping them alive and we need a new way of rehabilitating them. They are young and have families; they all are volunteers.

Sarah Hilt lost four limbs after getting meningococcal disease five years ago.
Ms Hilt says she could only move on with her life after spending more than $50,000 to get superior prosthetic limbs to the basic ones provided by the State Government.
“The first leg that I received had a locked knee joint. They were asking me to walk around with a stiff leg,” she said.

While Rehabilitation does cover the basics like how to get out of bed, transfer to and from chairs and the operation of crutches, there is very little literature available on exercises for amputees.

Exercise is essential for amputees, even more so if diabetes has been a contributing factor to your amputation.

Over the next 2 days prosthetic manufacturers, doctors and orthotic professionals are in a meeting in Columbia, for the 16th annual prosthetic conference.

It is tipped that the talk of the day has focused upon more effective means of evaluating and treating amputee patients.

Suffering from sever phantom pain and hypersensitivity in the bottom of my stump following several botched up surgeries, physiotherapists and doctors were themselves ‘stumped’.

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.

The rehabilitation of amputees has come a long way in recent times, it was an area overlooked by the medical profession for many years.

Maybe due to the amputee population being relatively small compared to other disabled or post surgery census statistics.

Meet Zana, six-year-old Belgian Shepherd and the Amputee Association of NSW’s official amputee therapy dog.

There are good organisations that do great work for the community and there are others that appear on the surface through great PR and marketing to be doing the right thing but are not.

So how do we know?

In most cases records for charities and events are public knowledge and can be audited fairly easily.

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.

Despite negative responses from Israeli officials, we intend to continue pursuing our campaign demanding moral and financial liability from the Ministry of Defense. Your engagement matters too.

Being a stork is hard work. Not only do you have to collect enough frogs and other delicacies to keep you going during the day, but you also have to fly to Africa and back once a year — and deliver babies to new parents the world over. What’s …

In a breakthrough reminiscent of the bionics technology of television, the SmartHand project is funded by the European Union and is a collaboration between researchers from across the continent. It has produced a prototype motorized prosthetic hand that researchers say gives unprecedented sensory feedback.

By Susan Misur
Many view running as a solitary sport, but for the Tartaglios, it’s a family affair.
Competing for more than 16 hours in Sunday’s ING New York City Marathon with his parents, extended family members and girlfriend walking by his side the entire time, John Tartaglio Jr., 22, was the …

HELEN KEMPTON
October 21, 2009 08:41am
LUCY Dixon took a leap of faith when she let surgeons amputate a leg which had caused her years of excruciating pain.
Now she plans to swim in the 2012 Paralympics in London.
This kind of brave determination is what the judges in this year’s Take …

HELEN KEMPTON
October 21, 2009 08:41am
LUCY Dixon took a leap of faith when she let surgeons amputate a leg which had caused her years of excruciating pain.
Now she plans to swim in the 2012 Paralympics in London.
This kind of brave determination is what the judges in this year’s Take …

By RYAN EVANS – Taranaki Daily News
Ben Hekenui is up for a national accolade.
The double amputee, winner of the Taranaki Daily News 2008 Person of the Year award, has been named a finalist in the Spirit Category of the 2009 Attitude Awards.
Mr Hekenui, …

Searching around the net today I came across this vehicle and I thought I would share it with you.
I figured a fun way to intro our non-profit would be to let you guys follow along with the W.A.V.E. build. What is it, well how about the Wheelchair Accessible Van for …

Miguel Padilla, mistreated and abandoned, killed himself at 17

By Kim Christensen and Garrett Therolf
October 11, 2009
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Miguel Padilla ran away from a licensed group home in April 2008, but he didn’t go far. Unknown to anyone at the time, the 17-year-old amputee made his way to …

Associated Press The Hartford Courant
October 4, 2009
Amazon.com WidgetsHARTFORD, Conn. – Rachel Grusse couldn’t help looking a bit perplexed. After swimming laps at a recent practice at the Glastonbury High School pool, Grusse told her coach, Suzi Hoyt, her shoulder felt sore. …