Lacey is now in a wheelchair and will need a prosthetic foot if she has ... walking due to the bone infection and needed a transmetatarsal amputation. I was extremely angry with what had happened.

A woman had to have her foot amputated after an ingrown toenail got infected and left her hours away from death. 42-year-old mum Lacey Shadrick said she got ingrown nails about once a week and would ...

An American woman was left fighting for her life and had to have her foot amputated after an ingrown toenail turned gangrenous. Forty-two-year-old Lacey Shadrick always dealt with ingrown toenails, ...

A test developed at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus that measures both prosthetic donning time and ...

A three-year-old boy from Sokkanur village near Kinathukadavu in Coimbatore district received a customised prosthetic leg after he underwent an above-knee amputation for his right leg due to a ...

Subjects with subclinical perfusion were further evaluated by a vascular surgeon prior to the amputation. When indicated, surgical or endoluminal revascularization was performed prior to the ...

Despite improvements in prosthetics design, the Hopkins students found that the options for women were few and that most are built for men’s feet. Yet 46.6 percent of all amputations in 2013 ...

I got a prosthetic leg and have been learning how to walk on it.” Related: Hiker's 'Little Burn' from Camping Skillet Leads to Double Amputation — but He Vows to Get Back on the Trail ...

Each year in the United States, approximately 130,000 people with diabetes undergo lower extremity amputations, a sobering statistic that translates to roughly 14 amputations every hour.