John Tartaglio on his way to completing the New York Marathon
On Sunday, November 1st, after starting at 6 AM (just before the sun rose over the Verazanno Bridge), twenty-two-year-old John Tartaglio became the first complete double leg amputee to finish a marathon. John completed the 26.2 miles in 15 hours and 59 minutes, running [...]
By Paula Middlehurst
My husband Simon has got used to me forgetting our wedding anniversary, so it was fabulous when, last year, my mother offered to have the children for a few days so we could celebrate. We booked into my favourite spa hotel in Hampshire.
It was just what we needed – for me, [...]
A stork in the German state of Saxony had the bad luck to break his leg, resulting in an amputation. Now, though, Dietmar is being nursed back to health with the help of a prosthesis.
Being a stork is hard work. Not only do you have to collect enough frogs and other delicacies to keep you [...]
It’s Raining Amputees
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A group of amputees took to the skies overhead in Nottinghamshire this week, in a charity tandem sky dive.
The idea was conceived when a patient at PACE Rehabilitation in Chesham, Bucks casually mentioned to his prosthetist, Jamie Gillespie, that he had always wanted to do [...]
Motala, the 48 year old elephant, joyfully throws dirt after being fitted with her prosthetic leg
We knew the day of Robo Dumbo would come, we just didn’t know it would come so soon. Actually, we couldn’t be happier for Motala. After losing her foot to a landmine a decade ago while working in a Thai [...]
André Picard
(From Monday’s Globe and Mail Last updated on Monday, Aug. 10, 2009 03:09AM EDT)
Imagine for a moment that you have a cancerous tumour eating away at the bone and muscle in your leg. You can choose to amputate the leg or undergo surgery that removes the cancer and leaves the limb intact.
It seems like [...]
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