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 ...

When an ulcer appeared on his toe in the fall of 2023, Tony Rastall assumed it would heal with routine care. Instead, the small wound marked the beginning of a rapid decline in circulation that ...

A novel surgical technique could dramatically improve walking for people with below-the-knee amputations and help them better control their prosthetics. A study published Monday in Nature Medicine ...

In reconstruction, the question is not whether a limb can be saved. It is whether the life attached to it can be lived. L. Scott Levin, MD, chair emeritus of orthopedic surgery and professor of ...

Yet these amputation procedures receive automatic insurance approval with no questions asked, no prior authorization, and no evidence review. There is no credible medical evidence suggesting that ...

Until the discovery of antibiotic medicine last century, doctors frequently performed amputations to save the life of a patient with an infected wound. But humans aren’t the only animal to perform ...