Ep. 77: How Your Prosthesis Gets Made
When you are a new amputee, everything feels strange and unknown, including the process involved when getting a new prosthesis. In this...
When you are a new amputee, everything feels strange and unknown, including the process involved when getting a new prosthesis. In this...
After a one-week hiatus, we are back to walk you through our new website. The product of months of planning and design work, the new-look...
On April 9th, CMS published a new rule that grants states wide power to modify plans sold on insurance exchanges. The changes could...
Q1 has come and gone but we had lots of action during the first 3 months of 2018. A still-growing Amp'd Army roster, a few Amp'd Activist...
Our March poll question focuses on an often-infuriating aspect of clothing - do you customize yours to accommodate or protect it from...
Peter Thomas is a member of the limb loss/difference community who has spent his entire professional career fighting for all of us as...
While being called inspirational would seem to be a good thing, the issue is more complex than it at first appears. What are the...
Dave attended AOPA's annual Policy Forum last week in Washington D.C. What issues were front and center? How did Dave prepare? What did...
In this podcast we review February's Amp'd Army poll results, unveil our poll question for March, and see whether Peggy can complete a...
The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) has announced that it has launched a fellowship program...
Last week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 620, a bill that would degrade the rights of all disabled Americans by subjecting...
Mixed in with the spending package that kept the U.S. government open last week was a provision that could help the limb loss/difference...
In our latest podcast, we review the results of our January Amp'd Army poll and and reveal our new question for January. Listen here...
When kids ask us questions about our limb loss/difference, knowing how to respond appropriately can be a challenge. In this podcast, we...
Medicare's functional levels - "K levels" - for lower limb amputees are the mechanism by which virtually all insurers in the United...
When we started amp'd, we promised the limb loss/difference community that we would freely share information about the organization, its...
We kick off 2018 with a grab bag of important issues. First, we explore the results of our December amp'd Army poll question and reveal...