The Lancet’s three-part PAD Series connects diagnosis, treatment, and independence—including the companion review with Andrew Bradbury and Caitlin Hicks.
PAD Steals Independence: A Lancet Call to Preserve Limbs and Lives
Tiny Drones Grow Whiskers: Feeling Their Way Through the Dark
A bio-inspired tactile system gives tiny drones something remarkably mammalian: the ability to feel their way through darkness, smoke, and confined spaces.
Our Bones Remember: Celebrating Kris Carlson’s New Clue to Human Evolution
A new Science Advances study led by Kris Carlson reads fossil limb bones as archives of behavior—and reveals a major shift from climbing toward life on the ground.
Worth a Life’s Work: From the Hopkins Dome to University of Maryland KITES Keynote #ActAgainstAmputation
Two life-affirming days in Baltimore—from the Johns Hopkins Dome to a KITES keynote and an Alexandria-led ALPS session—made the meaning of teamwork, mentorship, and limb preservation vividly clear.
September 10 at Johns Hopkins: On Wounding and Healing 25 Years after September 11
A day at Johns Hopkins with Alexandria and Natalie, a climb into the historic tower, and a reflection on Billings, Osler, limb preservation and the work of healing on the eve of September 11.
Noise-Cancelling Headphones—or Something More? PDN-Sensory Results in Diabetes Care #Neuromodulation #DiabeticNeuropathy #ActAgainstAmputation
The PDN-Sensory randomized trial is now published in Diabetes Care. We have long used the metaphor of 10-kHz spinal cord stimulation as “noise-cancelling headphones” for painful neuropathy. The new blinded sensory and skin-biopsy data suggest the story may be more interesting: perhaps we are not only filtering the noise, but altering the underlying wiring.
The Hurricane Returns: Revisiting an Incision for Limb Preservation Salvage in Calcanectomy #ActAgainstAmputation #DiabeticFoot
A new partial calcanectomy case series revisits the central idea behind our 2010 “Hurricane” incision: incision design can be part of limb preservation.
Forget Iron Man: Humble Exoskeletons and the Next Chapter of Repair, Regeneration & Replacement #WearableRobots
The Economist makes a compelling case that the most useful exoskeletons may not be full-body supersuits at all. The winners are becoming smaller, lighter and more specific—an idea that connects directly to decades of work in wearable robotics, rehabilitation, limb preservation and our own “Repair, Regeneration and Replacement” framework.
The Right Nudge at the Right Time: Can a Chatbot Support Diabetic Foot Care and help us #ActAgainstAmputation ?
An eight-person SmartBoot–CORA study links context-aware prompts to better short-term offloading responses. Paired with Lifestyle Redesign, it points toward support that fits everyday life.
Healing Happens Between Appointments: Lifestyle Redesign for Diabetic Foot Care #ActAgainstAmputation
Stacey Schepens Niemiec, Tze-Woei Tan, and USC colleagues adapt Lifestyle Redesign® occupational therapy to help fit diabetic foot care into everyday life. The intervention is ready for testing; clinical effectiveness remains to be established.
