Garrett Smyth walked away from tournament golf a long time ago. Losing his right ankle and foot to cancer gave him reason to ...

Although Stafford, Silva, and others have the support of Power On With Limb Loss in the greater Oregon area, options are ...

This paper aims to develop a knowledge base and identify the promising research pathways toward designing lower limb prostheses for optimal biomechanical and clinical outcomes. It is based on the ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado (CU) Anschutz Medical Campus, US, have developed the Colorado Limb Donning-Timed Up and Go (COLD-TUG) test that measures both the time it takes to don a ...

Each year in the United States, approximately 130,000 people with diabetes undergo lower extremity amputations, a sobering statistic that translates to roughly 14 amputations every hour. Even more ...

He had to have his leg resting above his heart. “In the beginning, I could lower my leg a minute of the day,” he said. “And every day after that I could add another 30 seconds.

“I didn’t wanna lose my leg cause I knew it would ruin sports for me,” said Henning. “But after hearing all the things with prosthetics and all that, it made it a lot easier.” ...

After golf season, he’ll likely have his prosthetic leg, and a spot on the varsity baseball team waiting for him. If the spring is any indication, he’ll hit it out of the park this summer too.

TORRANCE COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) — A high school basketball player in New Mexico is being honored for making it back to the court after a cancer diagnosis led him to have part of his leg amputated… ...

St. Luke's First in Region to Provide Novel Treatment for Avoiding Lower-Extremity Amputations PR Newswire BETHLEHEM, Pa., March 6, 2025 ...

After years of decreasing amputations in the United States, rates of non-traumatic lower extremity amputations due to diabetes and related conditions are rising, and Oklahoma is among the states ...

Anatomy There are two bones in the lower leg, below the knee. The larger of the two bones is the tibia. It is the shinbone and bears the majority of weight between the knee and the ankle. Lateral to ...