Adaptive Amputees Blog

Practical prosthetic advice, adaptive fitness, insurance guidance, travel tips, and honest conversations about life as an amputee.

Adaptive Amputees 10/29/25 Adaptive Amputees 10/29/25

What Has Helped You With Phantom Pain — Real Strategies From the Community

amputees shared what’s helped them manage phantom pain — from reducing sugar and using marijuana to mirror therapy and medication. Here’s what the community said.

Adaptive Amputees 7/23/25 Adaptive Amputees 7/23/25

Amputee Media Pick: Stuff You Should Know on Phantom Pain

A young female amputee sitting on a medical examination table, crying while a doctor and a nurse are attending to her in a hospital or clinic room.

Amputation & Limb Loss

A woman with a prosthetic leg jumps onto a black box in a gym.

A woman sitting on a bed in a bedroom, looking at her prosthetic leg and her other mobility device.

Adaptive Fitness

A female amputee in a striped dress and large hat standing in a lavender field on a sunny day.

Prosthetics & Mobility

Daily Life & Travel

A woman with a prosthetic leg sitting on an examination table in a medical office, waiting for the doctor.

A young woman with a prosthetic leg jumping in front of a brick wall with a big smile.