PORTLAND, Ore. — The family of a young man battling bone cancer is hoping someone will come across his stolen prosthetic leg. Doctors diagnosed Atticus Root with cancer at the age of 13. The next year ...
BEAVERTON, Ore. — On a rainy day in Mississippi when he was just 16 years old, Richard Browne's life changed forever. He was jumping out of the rain into the front doorway of a laundromat when his ...
Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward for any information to help recover a prosthetic leg belonging to a 20-year-old cancer survivor that was stolen from a car in downtown Portland. Someone or ...
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 ...
(CNN) — Amy Pietrafitta has learned to walk seven times. First was as a child and then after an industrial burn led to the amputation of her left leg in 2018. Since then, she’s had “first steps” in ...
Kids and young adults with limb loss got fitted to reach their running potential. More than a dozen Shriner’s Children’s Hospital patients gathered at the TRACK at New Balance in Brighton Saturday ...
Tis the season for giving and it’s come just in time for a 20-year-old cancer survivor in Oregon whose prosthetic leg was stolen out of his car earlier this month.
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 ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland police are asking for the public’s help in finding the suspect or suspects responsible for stealing a man’s prosthetic leg earlier this month. The Portland Police ...