GREENSBORO, NC -- Greensboro's Sheraton Hotel hosts the National Amputee Coalition Conference this weekend, bringing nearly 1,000 people from 50 states and five foreign countries to town. They'll ...
The 26th Amputee Coalition Conference brought together amputees from across the world to Tucson as they received support from various organizations. Approximately 1,150 people arrived at the JW ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND)-According to the Amputee Coalition of America there are nearly two million Americans who are amputees, a number that could grow to 3.6 million by 2050. Those that are amputees, ...
For the past 11 years, Laura Mullen has spent one week at a camp where everyone has a limb loss or a limb difference. The 22-year-old Goshen woman has served as a counselor for five years at the ...
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - A Johnson City boy has been granted a scholarship to attend a unique youth camp. 13-year-old Owen Grosserode was born without parts of his upper and lower extremities. This week ...
ROCKFORD — Gracie Downing is headed to Ohio this week for summer camp — an experience shared by many teenagers and children across the country. But Downing’s camp is unique: Every camper at Paddy ...
INSPIRING STORY TONIGHT. ALL MY LIFE I’VE BEEN ACTIVE. IT’S PART OF HIS DNA. THIS LAST MONDAY WE RODE 35 MILES AT LEAST 90 MILES A WEEK. BEST WAY TO STAY IN SHAPE. WHAT YOU MAY NOT NOTICE AS THE ...
The Amputee Center in Parkersburg will mark Limb Loss and Limb Difference Awareness Month with an Amputee Fun Fest on April 26 at the Wood County Resiliency Center. (Photo Provided) PARKERSBURG — ...
Juliana Lucas of Gulf Breeze is a girl who allows nothing to stand in her way. The rising eighth-grader at Woodlawn Beach Middle School has single-handedly mastered bowling, soccer and playing the ...
DURHAM, N.C. -- Elena Fellman is a 12 year-old girl from Durham. She competes in swimming, soccer, horseback riding; plays violin and goes to the Durham School of the Arts. She's also an amputee. Now, ...
Abbey Almelien is accustomed to the comments. “That girl only has one leg,” Almelien, 31, says she often hears from children who see her walking with crutches. “I'm so used to that now that it doesn't ...