Jul 29th, 2007 · Five years ago, Craig DeMartino lost part of his right leg when he fell in a mountain-climbing accident. Now he's a double gold-medal winner at the Extremity Games, an extreme sports competition for athletes missing limbs.
Oct 8th, 2006 · It's been a year since an earthquake caused such devastation in the mountains of Pakistan. But the nightmare continues for Ira Riaz. Her husband was among the 73,000 people killed in the earthquake. Since then, she lost her son in a landslide caused by an aftershock. She now spends her days swatting the flies gathering on the wounded limbs of her nine-year-old daughter, Samia, who lost both her legs in the landslide that killed her brother.
Mar 11th, 2006 · Dr. William H. Seitz, an orthopedic surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, is a specialist in a bone-lengthening technique that develops useful fingers, hands and even elbow joints in children born with malformed limbs. Recent advances have made the process far less painful than before.
Oct 3rd, 2005 · Last year in Iraq, a rocket-propelled grenade tore off most of Marine Corps Sgt. Oscar Canon's thigh, exposing his artery and leg bone. Now, nine months later, he is set to undergo the latest of 33 surgeries to reconstruct his leg.
Mar 16th, 2005 · At Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, the Army has created a new team to care for wartime amputees with different approaches and new technology.
Mar 14th, 2005 · In the war in Iraq, no one is truly behind the front lines. A large number of women soldiers are among the wounded, suffering from burns and broken bones, lost limbs and disfiguring scars. We meet three such women at the Brooke Army Medical Center facility in San Antonio, Texas.
Aug 8th, 2004 · Wyoming's Rulon Gardner stunned the world in 2000, upsetting perennial Greco-Roman wrestling champion Aleksandr Karelin of Russia for the Olympic gold medal. Then he nearly lost life and limb in a snowmobiling mishap. But he's back to defend his title. NPR's Howard Berkes reports.