Lviv has become a major humanitarian centre for those fleeing the war in Ukraine, or recovering from it. The city’s Superhumans Center has fitted more than 2,000 prosthetic limbs to about 1,000 ...

About this procedure When all or part of an arm or a leg is surgically removed (limb amputation), nerves at the end of the limb are cut. This often causes residual limb pain or phantom limb pain where ...

And again, the patients who we get to sooner and the ones that we do right away at the same time as their amputation, 90%-plus of them can expect not to have problems with long-term pain. So it is ...

The HSS Osseointegration Limb Replacement Center at Hospital for Special Surgery provides a major advance in amputation reconstruction surgery for amputees who have not tolerated or do not want to use ...

Ukrainian war veterans conquer Everest base on prosthetics to raise funds for phantom pain treatment Despite skepticism from many people, two Ukrainian intelligence officers with prosthetic limbs ...

Jerry Majetich lived with intense pain in his right hand for 15 years after suffering serious injuries in a bombing in Iraq in 2005. He decided to have the hand amputated in 2020, and is the first ...

When Tracey White started feeling pain in her right foot after a half marathon in the spring of 2021, she thought it was just normal soreness from the race. But the ailments kept escalating. In ...

Student, 19, had right arm ripped off by rugby tackle - 'I thought my life was over' Spencer Wadsworth was just five minutes into a rugby match when his arm was torn away from his body in a ...

07:34, 04 Apr 2025 Updated 13:49, 05 Apr 2025 Spencer Wadsworth doesn’t remember the life-changing tackle that tore his right arm from his spine (Image: Cover Images) ...

And he was still managing the pain. Doctors considered amputation, which Spencer was open to. "I hated the way it looked, and at first, I thought cutting it off might be the best option.

Spencer, a University of Keele student from Coventry,said: "I remember the pain of the tackle, but I can’t remember any of the game. I remember being on the ground and asking where my arm was." ...

A clinical trial from UC San Diego has found that psilocybin, the psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms, could provide lasting relief for amputees suffering from phantom limb pain, which affects 60 ...