Amputee News

Rewiring the Nervous System

Hydrau1 — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:17:55 PDT

IT IS known as “phantom limb syndrome” or “phantom pain”. But this strange phenomenon feels all too real to the people it affects, and can be agonisingly painful. Amputees and people who have become paralysed may still “feel” a missing limb or a...

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Amputee News 15 August 2010

Hydrau1 — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:58:00 PDT

A toddler who has had both legs amputated after contracting a deadly strain of meningitis may have to leave New Zealand because her mother is ... The double amputee clocked a time of 47.04 seconds at Crystal Palace to finish well clear of Britain's...

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Amputee News 12 August 2010

Hydrau1 — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:05:54 PDT

Members of the War Amps Child Amputee (Champ) Program helped mark the 35th anniversary of Champ through their participation in the Victoria Day Parade. ...

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Amputee News 7 August 2010

Hydrau1 — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:52:39 PDT

The 45-year-old amputee who raised $13 million to fight cancer with a cross-Canada run that ended in 1989 was arrested Thursday ...

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Amputee News 06August2010

Hydrau1 — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:25:39 PDT

Image by limbar2004 via Flickr Patients May One Day Regrow Their Own Missing Limbs The article describes how salamanders – which can regrow an entire limb – and other animals are providing clues to regenerating human limbs....

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British War Amputee Statistics

Hydrau1 — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 01:38:25 PDT

The number below only reflect a very small amount of the annual amputations carried out and until now happened daily in the privacy of our own lives without being published. At less than 1 amputee every 3 days, this small population of wounded...

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Amputee from Rochester get payout.

Hydrau1 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:53:51 PDT

A butcher has won a £250,000 payout after a series of medical blunders led to his leg being amutated. Ian Watts from Rochester has been left severely disabled following the incident. He was initially admitted to Medway Maritime Hospital with an...

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Amputee in X Games

Hydrau1 — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:26:54 PDT

Stephen Lutz is getting the chance of a lifetime...at just fourteen years old, Stephen is flying out to Los Angeles to skateboard with some of the world's best extreme athletes at the X-Games.

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Woman ‘robbed the vulnerable’

Hydrau1 — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:19:10 PDT

A drug addicted Palmerston North mother has been jailed for three years and eight months for a raft of dishonesty offences, including robbing a taxi driver at knifepoint and stealing from a wheelchair-bound double amputee.

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New Rehabilitation Unit for Tampa Hospital

Hydrau1 — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:36:38 PDT

Medical technology has progressed to a point where soldiers suffering severe wounds are being saved, Scott said. Getting them back to a fulfilling life is the challenge of rehabilitation. "We are bringing them back faster," Scott said. "We are...

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Hydrau1 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:23:18 PDT

There has been a lot of talk about this story, Mainly because of the joke involved in some of the titles. “Unarmed amputee Tasered twice” Well I guess if he was armed, he won’t have a leg to stand on The Merced Police Department's Internal Affairs Division is investigating a complaint alleging that an officer twice used a Taser against an unarmed man with no legs in a wheelchair

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Hydrau1 — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:58:31 PDT

By Lisa M. Martin September 12, 2009 — B!B believes, as Dean Gordon Brown once said, that "engineers operate at the interface between science and

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Hydrau1 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:30:22 PDT

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Africa News Sep 16, 2009, 12:46 GMT Johannesburg - The assault case against South Africa's champion double amputee

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Hydrau1 — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:27:31 PDT

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Africa News Sep 16, 2009, 12:46 GMT Johannesburg - The assault case against South Africa's champion double amputee