May is here, and I don’t know about you, but for me, it brings up so many memories, events, and celebrations like… May Day, National Day of Prayer, Cinco De Mayo, Nurse’s Day, Teacher’s Day, Mother’s Day, Armed Forces Day, Birthday’s, Parent’s Anniversary, and lest we ...
Sarah Reinertsen, a Paralympian, Ironman athlete, 13X marathon runner and world record holder had her left leg amputated above the knee when she was 7. All it took to get her into running was meeting another kid with a prosthetic like hers.“Since I was a kid with a prosthetic leg, I...
The Amazon society was described as stringently matriarchal. Males were of no use other than for mating purposes and as slaves, doing work that was traditionally performed by women. The limbs of the men were amputated so that they could not rebel and escape. Male babies were either given awa...
she was born with proximal femoral focal deficiency, a bone-growth disorder, and had her leg amputated above the knee when she was 7—but she never let it stop her from accomplishing her goals. she went on to compete on the amazing race and is a now spokesperson for the challenged ...
When the Cambodian women’s wheelchair basketball team headed to their first major international competition, they found wins off the court.
s. At that point, a six-pound cannon ball, probably fired by a gun of the Lynchburg Artillery, tore off his right leg and killed his horse. The stricken major was then carried to the field hospital at Sudley Church, where army surgeons amputated the remainder of Ballou’s shattered leg....
Phantom arm pain is a sense of boring or squeezing pain in the part of the arm that is no longer a part of the body because it has been amputated[44]. Phantom pain can appear within days or years after amputation and can persist for several weeks or even years[44]. ...
When financially feasible, we attend the Amputee Coalition of America National Conference to showcase the TheraV ELIX and have attendees interact with our device. This usually leads to a customer referral or purchase of the TheraV ELIX. In addition, we use our social media platforms (Facebook,...
Adult male zebrafish were injected with vehicle (control) or TCDD (70ng/g, ip) 1 day prior to partial amputation of the ventricle apex. Gross observation and histological analysis of the amputated heart at 21 days postamputation revealed that TCDD-exposed fish had not progressed beyond the ...
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