Cynthia Elford loves to travel and hike, but a few years ago, her Type 1 diabetes made getting around nearly impossible. By 2018, the Pennsylvania grandmother faced the possibility of losing her right ...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ Leg amputations haven't changed much in a very long time. Civil War-era textbooks describing them look pretty similar to contemporary ones, said Dr. Matthew Carty, a staff ...

More than 75% of patients facing amputation from the most severe form of peripheral artery disease were able to keep their limb after an innovative treatment as part of a multicenter study published ...

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People who have had a limb amputated often experience phantom limb pain and neuromas (painful, scarred nerve endings). Targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) surgery can help relieve the pain by ...

During limb salvage surgery, surgeons try to save as much of your limb as possible instead of removing the entire limb. It’s used to treat tumors in your arms or legs. Limb salvage surgery, also ...

The blockages cannot be cleared, and amputation has been the only option. With the LimFlow procedure, doctors take an artery ahead of the blockage and connect it to an unblocked vein in the lower leg ...