Are you a lower limb prosthesis user? We are interested in your experience: the functionality, your range of activities, and the effectiveness of various prosthetic devices. The Neuromuscular Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory (NREL) at the Joint Department of...
What is the study all about? Information from surveys and interviews collected from different prosthetic users can help clinicians understand what is most important to prosthesis users and guide prosthetic developers to design or improve prosthetic devices that can...
This episode of the AC News Flash features Cass Isidro and Dr. Danielle Melton. Dr. Melton, is a new Amputee Coalition board member and director of the Amputee Medicine and Rehabilitation Program at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She expresses her...
Do you use an above-knee prosthesis? Do you wish you had the opportunity to change a few things about it? Here is your chance to help researchers improve powered knee prosthetic technology. A team of researchers at the University of Michigan Robotics Department would...
In this segment of the AC News Flash, Cass Isidro outlines the Amputee Coalition's newly released prevalence study, highlights the 2024 ACNC conference registration now open, and talks about April's Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness Month for the community to...
Did you know that children and parents of children with limb loss and limb difference spend an average of 42.7 hours each year on prosthetic appointments, physical therapy, and associated travel?1 Since children are continually growing, they often require new...
What is the purpose of the study? Researchers at the University of Maryland are investigating the benefits of osseointegration in high-functioning above-knee prosthesis users by comparing walking biomechanics of users with vs. without osseointegration. For an...
Dr. Szu-Ping Lee at the Department of Physical Therapy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas How do individuals with lower limb loss benefit from peer-support after their amputation? What do support group members most like about peer support? In addition to emotional...
For women, the ability to wear a variety of shoes, including high heels, is often a choice that is taken for granted unless you are a woman with limb loss. This is why researchers at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center have launched a groundbreaking national study to...
By Kristi Turner, DHS, OTR/L Senior Research Occupational Therapist II, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Researchers at the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab are seeking participants who experience phantom limb pain. This research will evaluate a new virtual reality game-based system...