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Survival Perspectives:

Whether you are born with a limb difference or lose a limb to a disease or injury, how you deal with it will largely determine the kind of life you will have afterward.

Why do some people who’ve lost a limb spiral downward, and why do others survive the loss, rebuild their lives, and, ultimately, even reach a high level of success in their profession, in a sport or hobby, or in their enjoyment of life?

To help shed light on this question, we asked several amputees and people who have had extensive experience with limb loss to tell us what they’ve learned over the years. . . Read Article