Arm Amputees News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Amputations. best estimate puts the number at about 40,000, so not a lot. arm amputees also tend to be physically active risk takers, often the cause of the amputation in the first place. >> arm amputees are really cool. they're a little wild and crazy in the sense that they are really interesting people, and many of them got their amputation or lost their arm because they're interesting people doing interesting things that are maybe physically risky, so they may be sky divers, motorcyclists, marines, people who take physical risk. a lot of the arm amputations reject the prosthetic limb. >> bu...

To get back to where he was. after the fall, miles' amputated arm was badly swollen setting back his physical therapy. >> so pain goes right down through here. >> yeah, and like, this is a really bad spot in there too. >> dr. alex dro has been helping miles. >> we have a relationship where he tells me what he's done rather than what he's going to do. so i find out afterwards. you can view that two ways. we must keep him safe perspective or you can view it from this is a guy who's living his life the way he's choosing to, he's smart. he can make choices. >> arm amputations in the united states ...

>> arm amputees are really cool. they're a little wild and crazy in the sense that they are really interesting people, and many of them got their amputation or lost their arm because they're interesting people doing interesting things that are maybe physically risky, so they may be sky divers, motorcyclists, marines, people who take physical risk. a lot of the arm amputations reject the prosthetic limb. >> but miles does need a prosthetic limb for some activities like biking and he wanted to get back to training as soon as possible. before the accident, miles was planning on a 300 mile charity...