Welcome to the Limb Loss Information Centre. This online resource has been created to guide individuals with congenital or acquired limb loss and their friends, family and carers through the emotional, physical and psychological process of coming to terms with limb loss.

We have taken a holistic approach to limb loss and hope that through this we can provide relevant and useful information on all aspects of life after limb loss. We have tried to make the site as easy to navigate as possible and hope that you can find the information you need here.

Please have a look at the frequently asked questions section of the site where we have collated questions asked by other amputees, their families and carers.

There is a lot of information on this Website contained in nested pages. If you can’t find what you are looking for by clicking on a Parent Page in the left hand menu, please remember to try the Search facility at the top right of the page.

If you still can’t get the information you require please contact us and we will either research the query ourselves or put you in touch with the person best suited to answer your questions.

We run some relevant News items which appear on this Home Page. You will find additional News Items and stories on The Douglas Bader Foundation Website

With grateful thanks to Leggz, who some of you may know from the Forum, we are delighted to be able to offer a NEW SERVICE:

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Unnecessary Amputations performed in Haiti?

by Gallia Watch
(by Tiberge)
“To help you stay au courant of what French patriots are doing and saying in this time of turmoil and loss of nationhood. This website is for those with a limited knowledge of French and a boundless interest in saving European cultures from extinction.”
A woman pulled alive from the rubble following the [...]

Haiti: 2 Weeks of Emergency Care in Review

As medical assistance moves into a second phase, with conditions finally improving for the practice of surgery and medicine, three MSF staff members describe how the teams treated patients in the ruins of the Delmas district in the immediate aftermath of the January 12 earthquake in Haiti.
The Earth Shakes
It was the end of the day [...]

Diabetes - it often goes undetected. Be aware.

THOUSANDS of people are at risk from blindness, amputation, strokes, heart disease and kidney failure because they have failed to report symptoms to a doctor.
Diabetes UK believes there are 1,300 people in North Somerset and 3,700 people in Somerset suffer from the illness but have not had it detected.
One person is diagnosed with diabetes every [...]

Amputee Hopes to Help her Rescuers

Christa Brelsford went to help in Haiti but lost her foot in the process. Now, she hopes to help those who helped her.Christa Brelsford, the Arizona State University graduate student, who was among the first Americans rescued out of Haiti after the devastating earthquake ravaged the nation, has been discharged from the hospital and now [...]

Food for thought…Artificial-Limb Envy?

About Idea of the Day
“Idea of the Day” is a blog by Tom Kuntz and other editors of the Week in Review highlighting the most interesting writing we’ve come across lately on the Web. We’re generalists, so consider this a thinking person’s grazing buffet.Today’s idea: Technology and the marketplace have transformed the artificial limb from emblem [...]