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?

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$40 for an artificial limb?
Yes its True. This includes fitting costs and suits a below knee amputee.
Wait till you see the price for an above knee prosthesis.

Many Montanans are donating food and supplies to help victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Now one Great Falls business is trying to help in a more unique way. They are collecting items for those who have lost limbs, as thousands of Haitians have experienced injuries leading to amputation.

Researchers at the University of Michigan say they’ve developed a new type of artificial foot that nearly halves the amount of extra effort amputees need to exert with every step. The device uses a microcontroller to capture what would otherwise be lost energy, then releases that energy at just the right moment to boost ankle push-off.

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. ”
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Heather says she would like to take the likes of Gordon Ramsey and blind fold him so he would have to experience what it would be like to live as a blind person and put the likes of Eamonn Holmes (Host of Dancing On Ice) in a wheel chair so he could experience life from that perspective.

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.

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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.”