An updated and free-to-use interactive tool maps lower extremity amputation rates related to peripheral artery disease across US regions with additional details on various demographic groups.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The cortical region of the brain does not reorganize after amputation of a limb. Machine learning is essential to develop brain-computer interfaces that restore lost ...

(UPDATED) The use of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors for the treatment of type 2 diabetes is associated with more than a twofold increased risk of lower-limb amputations, as well as an increased risk of diabetic ketoacidosis, when ...

WASHINGTON — Limb amputations are performed by surgeons when a traumatic injury such as a wound from war or a vehicle accident causes major tissue destruction or in instances of serious infection or disease. But humans are not alone in doing such procedures.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The risk for lower limb amputations for people with diabetes increases with age and for those who smoke or exercise less. Adults with obesity may have a lower risk for ...

Phantom limb pain remains one of the most challenging sequelae following upper limb amputation, characterised by the persistent sensation of pain in the absent limb. This phenomenon is believed to arise from maladaptive cortical plasticity and altered ...

A man who voluntarily had his legs amputated due to a rare genetic condition has said he hopes to learn to jog again. Tom Staniford has MDP syndrome, a rare genetic condition, which he said meant he had no fat on the soles of his feet.

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 focused on the curious phenomenon of the phantom limb.