LaQuinta "Q" Hayes started having leg pain after being hit by a drunk driver in 2015. Doctors discovered she had a rare bone cancer. Today, Hayes is on the national team of the US Amputee Soccer ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A University of Michigan graduate is back in the Mitten State this week to raise awareness and funding for amputees. Nicole Ver Kuilen was just 10 years old when she lost ...
The prosthesis itself won't even touch his skin. "Instead of having the weight of your body on the external skin of your stump, you're taking it on the end of the bone like you're supposed to," Reff ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — For many amputees, the process of getting an additional prosthetic can be costly. One Michigan native, set out to bring awareness to that very issue. Nicole Ver Kuilen lost her ...
At , Cory A. Collinge, MD, spoke about current concepts in amputation.“Obviously, amputation is something that nobody really wants to talk about, but it’s a vital part of what we do,” Collinge, an ...
Those who had ended up with amputee partners sometimes changed their focus and became ‘wannabe’ amputees. With regards to the amputee fixation itself, around a quarter of the network were sharply ...
Enabling a child who is physically disabled to participate in a sport they love is the quickest way to restore their damaged self-esteem. For a child who has either lost a leg or who was born without ...