29th November 2016
Ironman triathlete and Paralympian Sarah Reinertsen has tried out a lot of legs in her lifetime. Having used everything from a hollow wooden one with two hinges when she had her leg amputated above the knee at age seven, to ...
30th June 2016
Jordan Reeves, born with what she calls “a little arm,” has worn seven different prosthetic hands in her 10 years. This year, she designed a really special one – a five-barreled glitter blaster. “You can’t be sad when you’re covered ...
26th May 2016
Avid mountaineer Ginty Telfer-Wilkes refuses to let multiple sclerosis get in the way of her sky-high pursuits. Since being diagnosed with the neurological condition last year, Ginty has made it her personal mission to show the world that people with ...
18th February 2016
He had survived a battlefield explosion. Now he was back in the States with only one leg and so depressed that he refused physical therapy. Suddenly a man appeared at the hospital room door. Tipped off by hospital staff about ...
16th February 2016
Taliya Dawkins was born without a left hand but that hasn’t stopped her from embracing gymnastics, acrobatics, swimming and ice-skating. Now eight years old, she joins a growing list of people whose lives are being transformed by prosthetics Sabrina ...
2nd December 2015
When Kris Saunders-Stowe met the Australian Paralympic team in London in 2012, he was inspired to take up wheelchair basketball. Local gyms had little to offer wheelchair users – so Kris set out to reimagine fitness training for people with differing abilities. “...
22nd October 2015
I thought my daughter’s two-month medical checkup would be pretty straightforward. After all, she was healthy, growing, and already rolling! Then I found out she had hip dysplasia. My daughter is so strong. And yes, everyone thinks their baby ...
12th October 2015
When Jane’s knee pain began tiring her out, she knew it was time to act. She was soon unable to teach dance classes or ride a bike. As a school teacher who spends all day on her feet, arthritis ...
1st October 2015
Hasan's daughters, Duaa and Shahd, were aged just one and four years old, respectively, when a rocket hit their house in Syria. Now doctors at a clinic in Jordan are working to rehabilitate them and hundreds of other victims of ...
15th September 2015
Born without a forearm, Rebekah Marine has defied convention by taking the fashion industry by storm. This Is MedTech caught up with the ‘bionic model’ fresh from her second turn on the catwalk at New York Fashion Week. How big ...