Be-YOU-tiful Adaptive Warrior

Be-YOU-tiful Adaptive Warrior

Breaking through mental and physical barriers to becoming your best self, living your best life.

Episodes

Real Talk with Dr. Carty

June 11, 2025 • 65 mins
AMI Procedure and The Future of Amputations Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital   "For 200 years there has been no real difference in amputation; it's technique and how it's done." Do you know anything in our world that hasn't evolved in 200 years? No! This was a statement that Dr. Carty stated today in our conversation and I was in disbelief. How could that be? With so many engineering marvels happening at an exorbitant ra...
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Facing Setbacks

May 28, 2025 • 26 mins
Setbacks to Comebacks   Life is full of ups and downs and as an amputee we must realize that we will face many more challenges, past the amputation itself, years later. For one, our sound side becomes extremely important to us. Taking care of our good joints while still trying to live a full and healthy life yet protecting what we have left becomes a balancing act and can be very scaring when things go wrong. We also struggle ...
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Stressed Out!!

May 21, 2025 • 27 mins
Dealing With Stress to Alleviate Phantom Pain   Ahhh, stress! It wouldn't be a day or a week without something triggering stress. A bid decision, a deadline, a fight with a friend, or even traffic! As amputees we also face the uphill battles of healing, socket fittings, sores and painful steps, and phantom pains. Sometimes it feels like we never get a break. It feels like the weight of the world is placed on our shoulders and ...
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The Neuroscience of Phantom Pain

May 14, 2025 • 66 mins
The Latest Research Behind Phantom Pain   You may have heard the saying, "Mind over Matter" a few times in your life. I know I have, but did you know that it is more than just a saying? Did you know that our brains are capable of helping us cope when we struggle, especially when we deal with pain? Today I learned how the brain can actually help us changing the way we think and perceive the pain we feel. We have the ability to r...
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That’s A Wrap!

May 7, 2025 • 23 mins
Loss/Limb Difference Awareness Month 2025   Garrison Hayes and Eric Gutierrez-Camacho Colorado State University John McCollough: MIT Ophelie Herve: UCLA Mira Mutnick, Jake Kanetis, and Marty Kilbane Colorado State University Dan Levine: MIT As April comes to a close we say a huge thank you to all of the university students ts who came on to share what they have been working on, in the fields of mechanical and biomedical engin...
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The Future is Now: Part 5 of 5

April 30, 2025 • 55 mins
MIT Dan Levine   As we wrap up this Limb Loss/Limb Difference Awareness month I am also interviewing my final university student who has been working towards his PhD at MIT. Dan started his journey at Cornell with a degree in Mechanical engineering and Computer Science and is about to graduate from MIT with his doctorate in Media Arts and Sciences. Dan had a fascinating beginning as he was able to spend some younger years in Tha...
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The Future is Now: Part 4 of 5

April 23, 2025 • 59 mins
University of Michigan Mira Mutnik, Jake Kanetis, and Marty Kilbane     Amazing conversation with not 1, not 2, but 3 PhD students at the University of Michigan this week! A true, authentic conversation about the innovation and design of future prosthesis and the growth and research of creating a surgical procedures to aid in using these newly designed prosthesis all with the purpose of replicating the natural human movement. ...
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The Future is Now: Part 3 of 5

April 16, 2025 • 63 mins
Limb Loss Awareness Month UCLA: Ophelie Herve   As we come into our third week of April Limb Loss/Limb Difference Awareness month I am so excited to have a female voice in the engineering program from UCLA on our podcast today. Ophelie was  born in France and came with her family here to the United States at an early age. In high school she reflects on watching the news when the Boston Marathon was bombed and she saw peak athle...
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The Future is Now: Part 2 of 5

April 9, 2025 • 56 mins
Limb Loss Awareness Month MIT: John McCollough   John is a student at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts working towards his Masters and PhD in Medical Engineering. I met him a year and half ago when he reached out to see if I was interested in coming to MIT for a Gait Study that he was assisting a student working toward his PhD. Of course I said Yes!   This is what it looks like when you agree to a gait study!     Now ...
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The Future is Now: Part 1 of 5

April 2, 2025 • 68 mins
Limb Loss Awareness Month 2025 Colorado State University: MediFlex Prosthetics LLC   CSU MediFlex Prosthetics team   Here we are again for the month of April and bringing awareness to the Limb Loss/Limb Difference community. Every year, in the month of April, I shift gears on my podcast and create a theme centered on the amputee community and interview people versus talking from my personal experience. Each year I have met som...
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Statistically Speaking

March 26, 2025 • 28 mins
The Reality of the Numbers and What We Can Do About It   The stats on amputees is staggering. In the US 1 in 200 people have undergone amputation! Over 2.1 million people live with an amputated limb. Worldwide, 1 million ampuatations happen annually, that's 1 amputation every 30 seconds!!!   1 EVERY 30 SECONDS! Amputee Coalition's diagram of statistics taken from Promedeast.com 2023   Even more alarming is the projection...
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Who Am I?

March 19, 2025 • 30 mins
Knowing Your Identity and Accepting It   We, as a society, place a lot of value on how we look. A first impression, sort of thing. A "judge a book by the cover" value. But we all know that the physical makeup of a person doesn't give us the whole picture. As women, we are bombarded by makeup ads, weightless products, fashion trends for petite sizes and magazine covers showing 'beautiful" flawless women with perfect features....
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How Did I Get Here?

March 12, 2025 • 32 mins
Faith and Connections   Just the other day I met a lovely woman in a wheelchair. My first instinct was to smile  but then I looked down, only to see that this kindly older lady was missing part of her limb. She was a below knee amputee. She was being pushed around the store by a younger man, a caretaker, in her wheelchair when she noticed me and my prosthesis.  She asked him to back up and push her towards me to talk about bein...
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One Step At A Time

March 5, 2025 • 25 mins
Goal Setting and Climbing Your "Mountain"   Nothing in life that's worth achieving is going to come easy. Working toward a goal, putting your best foot forward and sweating through it makes achieving it all the more sweet. Why would becoming an amputee be anything different? If you were active before your amputation, then you know what can be done with a lot of work, grit, and determination. It won't be easy. It'll test your ...
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Be Prepared

February 26, 2025 • 26 mins
Building Strength For a Better Future     If you are a new amputee or an amputee who hasn't been wearing their prosthesis for one reason or another we need to talk. What are you doing to prepare your body for movement? Balance is so important in preventing falls, even when being silly!   After becoming an amputee you spend weeks healing only to find yourself getting use the weight deficit of not having a leg. This makes add...
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Limbs For Humanity

February 19, 2025 • 32 mins
Making Mobility Great Again, One Prosthesis at a Time   When I walked into The Limb Center office prior to amputation I met Randy West and David Banks for the first time.   They are a Phoenix based company   From that moment on, they were there for me, reassuring me that I could do this, that they would make sure I had the best fit and they asked about my hopes and dreams as I entered amputee life, allowing me the space to d...
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Real Life

February 12, 2025 • 29 mins
Morning Routines to Get Motivated   Life as an amputee is already hard enough just learning to live without a limb that, for most of us, we were born with.  However, what you don't know is the little things, the minutia of everyday tasks that can sometimes be enough to halt you in your tracks. I got an interesting question the other day, one I haven't been asked before: "How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?" ...
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The Answer is NO

February 5, 2025 • 28 mins
It's Always "No" If You Don't Ask When it comes to the world around you, the old adage, "You catch more flies with honey, than vinegar", still holds true. As an amputee, I have seen this firsthand. When I smile at someone, they smile back. If I say Hello with a smile, I start a conversation and usually educate someone who is curious. And when I ask questions, that I may be afraid to ask (because I don't want to look like I'm look...
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The Ocean is Calling

January 29, 2025 • 29 mins
Healing and Finding Purpose   This Illinois, born and raised, girl never knew she had a connection to the ocean. It's a beautiful thing to find in yourself so late in life. It was surprising, and breathtaking when it happened. Many years ago my family moved to Florida for a job. I never thought I would leave Illinois, EVER! All of my family and my husband's family live there. That was our support system. We enjoyed Florida a ...
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Keys to Success

January 22, 2025 • 28 mins
Do You Have These Two Ingredients?   My people, My "Why" Chicago Family: My roots and the people who believe in me   You need People and you need a positive mindset! It's that simple... OK, maybe it's not simple but the solution to getting the most out of life usually comes from these two things and you can make the changes for yourself, not having to rely on anyone or anything outside of yourself. Start NOW! I have always...
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