Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz have identified a critical gap in how post-amputation pain is evaluated and treated.

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. The rate of lower limb amputations among Medicare ...

Patients undergoing dialysis, especially those with diabetes as the primary renal disease, face a high risk for lower limb amputation and mortality after amputation, a cohort study finds.

Here’s some good news for a change from the diabetes front: Lower-limb amputations due to diabetes complications dropped 65 percent from 1996 to 2008. In a study published this week in the journal ...

Lucha libre icon Konnan was hospitalized in San Diego, California, this past Friday. Reports indicate that the Hall of Famer ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients with critical limb ischemia, those in hospitals with a high volume of amputation procedures had ...

Lower limb amputation is a life‐altering surgical intervention, most commonly necessitated by vascular complications, trauma or malignancy. The subsequent rehabilitation process is critical in ...

BERLIN – Use of diuretics may increase the risk for lower limb amputations in people with diabetes, and the same hypovolemic effect might help explain the increased risk of amputations seen with the ...

Given the prevalence of diabetes in the United States, the fact that the disease is the number one cause of lower extremity amputation is an extremely serious matter. Worldwide, a lower limb is lost ...

Three new studies from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) highlight the use and advantages of osseointegration (OI) for ...

THE emotional responses of people to the loss of an extremity have been dealt with by a number of investigators. In most of these studies the subjects have been young, and attention has been chiefly ...