The prosthetics that adaptive snowboarder Mike Schultz produces with his company, BioDapt, make him one the top snowboard ...

At 50 feet, he encountered the cave’s first squeeze, but Collins was unfazed: With proper technique, a man his size could squirm ... Rocks compressed his torso. Above, loose stones dangled millimeters ...

After years of decreasing amputations in the United States, rates of non-traumatic lower extremity amputations due to ...

Doctors “casually” floated the idea of amputation “in passing,” so he ... he had surgery to amputate both of his legs below the knee. "In addition to the amputation, this blood infection ...

In less than a month, outdoorsman Max Armstrong developed sepsis and lost both of his legs — but, he says, "things can be overcome" Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has ...

Rapidly spreading, harrowing and potentially lethal, a necrotizing soft tissue infection — so-called flesh-eating disease — ...

Six of 48 (12.5%) healed TMAs underwent a more proximal amputation owing to progressive ischemia (2 above knee amputations [AKA], 3 below knee amputations [BKA], ankle articulation). Fourteen of ...

The five-year mortality after major amputation ranges from 40–82% after below-knee amputations and 40–90% after above-knee amputations, according to the National Institutes of Health. In its ...

The PAD Collaborative has launched an online heat map to raise awareness of the risk of non-traumatic lower limb amputations, a serious complication of peripheral artery disease (PAD). This ...

Wednesday was his debut at the upper tier of biathlon — not just a world cup race, but also a test event for next winter's ...