For Immediate Release Contact: Jerrica Thurman, Vice President, Strategy & Communications, jerrica@amputee-coalition.org Amputee Coalition Announces Partnership with ADA on Amputation Prevention Alliance (January 13 2023, Washington, D.C.) The Amputee Coalition is...
J&J Mobile Initiative to Address Hidden PAD in Vulnerable Communities
One of the Amputee Coalition's main pillars encompasses education on preventing limb loss to help bridge the gap in racial and ethnic disparities in the limb loss community. Black Americans are disproportionately affected by peripheral artery disease (PAD). According...
Hispanic Americans Disproportionally at Risk for Amputation
Adapted from the Amputee Coalition Fact Sheet on Race and Ethnicity Disparities in Limb Loss Data from the Census Bureau indicates that as of 2020 there are more than 62 million Hispanics living in the United States making it the nation’s second-largest racial or...
Prevention Outreach for Unhoused Communities
At the 2022 National Conference, Laduan Smedley shared a wealth of information about how technology can help provide patients greater access to the community organizations designed to help them. His organization – Limb Care Foundation (LCF) – while small, is mighty...
Get Counted: Limb Loss and Preservation Registry
Kenton Kaufman joined us at the 2022 National Conference to talk about the current national effort to create a Limb Loss and Preservation Registry. The need for this is starkly illustrated through the lack of available current data. If you weren’t aware, there is: No...
Darren Lyons
"Did you lose your legs in the war?" This question came from my young, energetic Uber Driver as he folded my Rollator carefully and placed it in his trunk of his vehicle. I must admit that it was the best question I had ever been asked about my missing legs. The war,...
Finding and Fixing Your Fall-Risk Factors
Samantha Stauffer, CPO, MSOP, Dr. J. Megan Sions, PT, DPT, PhD, & John Horne, CPO Preventing a fall can be a daily concern for people living with lower-limb loss. For some, a fall is merely a nuisance, while for others it may lead to severe injury. Over half of...