Three new studies from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) highlight the use and advantages of osseointegration (OI) for individuals with an amputation, in some instances challenging prevailing beliefs ...

Early modern surgeons passionately debated where and how to cut the body to remove fingers, toes, arms and legs in ways medieval surgeons hadn’t. This was partly because they confronted two new ...

If you were glued to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, you already know the moment that defined these Games didn’t happen on a podium. It happened 13 seconds into Lindsey Vonn‘s ...

American skier Lindsey Vonn, who crashed seconds into her downhill race at the 2026 Winter Olympics​, said she is finally out of the hospital as she recovers.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ‒ Leg amputations haven't changed much in a very long time. Civil War-era textbooks describing them look pretty similar to contemporary ones, said Dr. Matthew Carty, a staff ...

Lindsey Vonn is heaping praise on her doctor after surgery kept her from getting leg amputated.

Lindsey Vonn narrowly avoided having her leg amputated after her devastating crash in the women's downhill at the Milan ...

Vonn revealed her surgeon “saved her leg from being amputated” due to the effects of compartment syndrome.

MIDWAY, Utah — When doctors told Joe Pleban at 21 years old that a tumor had destroyed his ankle and competitive sports were ...

The U.S. Olympian said trauma to her fractured left leg led to compartment syndrome, which could have caused her to lose the limb.