If you are currently enrolling individuals with limb loss or limb difference as participants in your research study, we invite you to learn about what opportunities exist for you at our National Conference happening August 8-10 in Atlanta, GA. Please use our Request...
What is the study all about? Researchers at the Cleveland VA Medical Center invite you to participate in research to advance lower limb prosthetic technology. This research will explore the three focus areas of sensation, movement/control, and residual limb health....
If you are living with lower limb loss and you use a lower limb prosthesis, we invite you to complete this 15-minute survey to assess your physical fitness and activity level. This survey will ask about your exercise habits and your physical fitness as you perceive...
The underrepresentation of people with limb loss and limb difference in clinical research impedes the care provided, lowering health outcomes. The need for comprehensive research on limb loss and limb difference health is paramount. Across various conditions—such as...
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...