In a talk Wednesday night on Mercer’s campus, Bhante Dam Phommasan spoke of the peace and mindfulness that helped him through ...
Buddhist monk Bhante Dam Phommasan, abbot at a Georgia temple who was badly injured during a peace walk last fall, took his first steps this week with a prosthetic leg.
Buddhist monk Bhante Dam Phommasan spoke at Mercer University on Wednesday after doctors from Mercer’s Mercer on Mission team fitted Phommasan for a new prosthetic leg after he was injured in an ...
Buddhist monk Dam Phommasan shares his message of peace in Macon after losing his leg during a cross country walk and receiving a prosthetic from a Mercer team.
(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 ...
With a new surgical intervention and neuroprosthetic interface, researchers restored a natural walking gait in people with amputations below the knee. Seven patients were able to walk faster, avoid ...
When a person loses a leg above the knee, the nerves that once moved that leg don’t simply go quiet. They keep firing. The ...