Objective To elicit expert opinion and gain consensus on specific exercise intervention parameters to minimise hip bone mineral density (BMD) loss following traumatic lower limb amputation. Methods In ...

A simple, cost-effective procedure could reduce pain and opioid use for amputees, according to a Northwestern University pain medication expert who collaborated with Ukrainian scientists and soldiers ...

Procedure is simple and could be adopted by most U.S. hospitals Roughly 2 million people in the U.S. live with limb loss; number is expected to rise Senior author, a retired U.S. Army colonel, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Limb amputations are performed by surgeons when a traumatic injury such as a wound from war or a vehicle accident causes major tissue destruction or in instances of serious ...

For most Americans, encountering someone in their community who is missing a lower limb due to amputation isn’t terribly uncommon. Thanks to modern surgical techniques and advances in mobility devices ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The cortical region of the brain does not reorganize after amputation of a limb. Machine learning is essential ...

A reliable method to treat post-amputation pain remains elusive, but a new Northwestern Medicine study conducted in collaboration with Ukrainian physicians suggests that hydrodissection - a simple ...

For the first time, the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville is collaborating with Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, studying a prosthetic hand system that could assist upper-limb amputees ...

A 31,000 year-old skeleton has been discovered to be the oldest case of a limb amputation ever found. According to a paper published on September 7 in the journal Nature, the skeleton was that of a ...