An often-encountered scenario in a workers' compensation or personal injury setting involves a diabetic claimant or plaintiff who sustains a blunt-force trauma or laceration injury to his or her foot ...

The number of traumatic amputations is rising worldwide—caused by road traffic accidents, accidents at work or during leisure ...

According to a new study conducted by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, there were more than 950 cases of traumatic ...

LAKE BERRYESSA – A man suffered what first responders called a "traumatic" partial amputation after he fell off a boat at Lake Berryessa and was struck by a propeller. The Napa County Sheriff's Office ...

Around the world, there are half a billion adults living with diabetes, many of whom will develop foot ulcers. Across the United States, 85% of all non-traumatic amputations are directly linked to ...

Hands caught in doors cause most of the childhood amputations in the United States, a study said Monday, though they most often involve only partial loss of a finger and no hospital stay. The most ...

War study in Ukraine suggests hydrodissection may reduce pain, opioid use in amputees. A reliable method to treat post-amputation pain remains elusive, but a new Northwestern Medicine study conducted ...

For most Americans, encountering someone in their community who is missing a lower limb due to amputation isn’t terribly uncommon. Thanks to modern surgical techniques and advances in mobility devices ...

Within hours of the Boston Marathon bombing Monday, the Navy dispatched a three-member team from Newport, R.I., to try to help to track down the perpetrators. As word spread of multiple amputations ...

A simple, cost-effective procedure could reduce pain and opioid use for amputees, according to a Northwestern University pain medication expert who collaborated with Ukrainian scientists and soldiers ...