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Not directly related to limb loss - not at all in the video, in fact.

But I'm posting this here because I can't say enough good things about saunas for phantom pain relief: in my case, phantom pain manifests itself in the form of electric shocks and, more annoyingly, intense itching that I obviously can't scratch, and one of the only things that work for me is a nice hot sauna.

If you have access to a sauna or a hot spa somewhere, give it a spin next time it hits!

Here are videos of the adjustable socket systems mentioned in the guide:

• Click Medical Adjustable Sockets:
  

• LIM Innovations Infinite Socket:
  

• Martin Bionics Socket-less Socket:
  

This guide is rather old (2018), there are other systems out there. But they all work pretty much on the same principles.

I love this project. Ian Davis is so rad!

I'd better be careful with my fingers, seeing as though I ain't got spare toes...

I'm usually pain-free - including phantom pain - which I'm really grateful for.

So I got cocky: I told my landlord I'd be out of this house and into our new house in 7 days. It's totally possible. Or at least it would be if I wasn't me...

I'm 5 days in, the house is almost empty - we're camping here basically. All I have left to do is move our beds and transfer permanently to our new home and... I can't do it. I'm lying on the couch with intense phantom pain because I've been on my feet for too long for days, and I can't do anything about it. My wife is looking at me like I've betrayed her, and I dread calling the landlord for an extension - which he would love of course, because that means having to pay for an extra month's rent. All that because I can't get my sorry ass off the couch like a fucking failure.

I feel so defeated...

Someone will have to pay for this one day/

This clever gizmo turns any USB input devices - or combination of input devices - into any other HID device. Different versions also accept individual switches as inputs.

This means if you have trouble using a mouse, you can turn a joystick or a gamepad into a mouse.

Or if you can use a mouse but you can't click, you can remap the button to some other switch, like a foot pedal.

The possibilities seem endless, but it is a bit on the geeky side. If you're not the technical type, you might want to get some help from a computer or electronics engineer to put together your ideal setup with that one.

Check out the manual's section on accessibility:

https://www.remapper.org/manual/#accessibility-applications

Great news for those of us who would rather keep their shoes on for practical or social reasons.

That's how our Dear Leader's economic nonsense translates in people's actual lives. If you watch Ian Davis' videos, you can tell he's furious under his usual friendly and polite demeanor. I would be too.

Liberation Day indeed...

Don´t forget to shout "Tiki!", not "Help!", or the turtle won´t come.

Today was rough. It hasn't been this intense for at least a year.

This man's homemade prostheses are awesome!

Check out his creations on his Tiktok and his Youtube channels.

I particularly like his super-cheap prostheses made out of plastic soda bottles, a technique we mentioned here before.

[...] Each day, according to UNRWA,10 children are losing one or both of their legs. Gaza is home to the largest cohort of child amputees in modern history. Women are three times more likely to miscarry, and three times more likely to die from childbirth. [...]

Cool affordable hand with haptic feedback from Psyonic in San Diego, CA.

Here's a video overview of this hand.

Best of all: if you like to tinker, Psyonic put the Ability Hands' API on their Github, so you're not limited to their software: you can do your own thing and control it however you want.

The National Limb Loss Resource Center, part of the HHS-ACL (Administration for Community Living) is essentially the federally-funded arm of the Amputee Coalition to provide information and support to help amputees.

The National Limb Loss Resource Center receives $3.2m in federal grant. That's the cost of just two Tomahawk missiles. Unlike Tomahawk missiles, the National Limb Loss Resource Center improves the lives of millions of amputees.

Government efficiency indeed...