Parra eventually purchased a running prosthesis with a grant from the Challenged Athletes Foundation, a nonprofit that supports disabled athletes. But the sticker shock stayed with him. It moved him ...

Advances in biomechanics and prosthetic engineering have significantly transformed our understanding of running in amputee athletes. The integration of running‐specific prostheses (RSPs) has enabled ...

Enabling a child who is physically disabled to participate in a sport they love is the quickest way to restore their damaged self-esteem. For a child who has either lost a leg or who was born without ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- "Three and a half years ago, I actually was in the middle of my medical rotations in medical school, and I started to develop foot pain and eventually was ...

ATLANTA - A metro-Atlanta boy received a big surprise Saturday morning, a new running prosthetic leg. The organization called Challenged Athletes Foundation partnered with prosthetics company Ossur ...

An 18-year-old Marysville teen, who lost his leg a year and a half ago, was surprised with a running prosthesis during a free mobility & running clinic on Saturday. The prosthetic was given to Xavian ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. An eleventh grader at an Oxnard high school ...

BOSTON (AP) — Adrianne Haslet heard all the talk about taking back Boylston Street in the years after the Boston Marathon bombings. Her mind was 26.2 miles away, instead. After losing her left leg in ...

NEW HAMPSHIRE – When 3-year-old Thomas "TJ" DeAngelo got to personalize his new running prosthesis, he picked an image of Lightning McQueen, the gregarious racecar from the “Cars” movie franchise.