SAN FRANCISCO -- Getting your car broken into is bad enough, but it's even worse when it's on your birthday. That's what happened to a San Francisco man who is training to join the U.S. Paralympic ...

Parra eventually purchased a running prosthesis with a grant from the Challenged Athletes Foundation, a nonprofit that supports disabled athletes. But the sticker shock stayed with him. It moved him ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- "Three and a half years ago, I actually was in the middle of my medical rotations in medical school, and I started to develop foot pain and eventually was ...

Advances in biomechanics and prosthetic engineering have significantly transformed our understanding of running in amputee athletes. The integration of running‐specific prostheses (RSPs) has enabled ...

Enabling a child who is physically disabled to participate in a sport they love is the quickest way to restore their damaged self-esteem. For a child who has either lost a leg or who was born without ...

ATLANTA - A metro-Atlanta boy received a big surprise Saturday morning, a new running prosthetic leg. The organization called Challenged Athletes Foundation partnered with prosthetics company Ossur ...

When Joseph Alvarado showed up to a mobility clinic at Rice University, the 15-year-old went in expecting to learn tips on how to maneuver with his prosthetic leg. What he didn’t expect was receiving ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. An eleventh grader at an Oxnard high school ...

BOSTON – Adrianne Haslet heard all the talk about taking back Boylston Street in the years after the Boston Marathon bombings. Her mind was 26.2 miles away. After losing her left leg in the 2013 ...

SCITUATE, R.I. (WPRI) — When Kendra Cucino D’Allesandro lost her right leg in a motorcycle crash last year, she was horrified by the thought of never being able to walk again. “My heart dropped,” she ...