An engineering professor hopes to develop an alternative below-knee prosthesis capable of actively powering the ankle joint for amputees. Most people probably do not spend much time contemplating the ...

State-of-the-art prosthetic limbs can help people with amputations achieve a natural walking gait, but they don’t give the user full neural control over the limb. Instead, they rely on robotic sensors ...

A surgery developed at MIT, called agonist-antagonist myoneural interface (AMI), connects muscle remnants from the shin and the calf to allow near-natural movement for those using an advanced ...

A novel surgical technique could dramatically improve walking for people with below-the-knee amputations and help them better control their prosthetics. A study published Monday in Nature Medicine ...

In a sunlit room of the naval hospital, Sgt. Collin Raaz balances on two tall prosthetic legs, standing at the threshold of his bionic future. With two carbon fiber feet laced into tennis shoes, ...

The modern world around us — from the spaces we inhabit to the furniture we perch upon to the gadgets, tools and devices we hold in our hands — is implicitly designed for humans that fit within a ...

BURNSVILLE, Minn – Sixteen-month-old Vincent Lynick zooms around his backyard pushing a toy lawnmower, unfazed by a prosthetic leg that helped him take his first true steps. "I think I cried when he ...

SURGICAL opinion varies widely as to the advisability of performing below-knee amputations in limbs that exhibit diminished circulation at the level of amputation. It has been shown that below-knee ...

Chris Handy, a Piedmont resident, shares his inspiring journey of overcoming a leg amputation to walk his daughter down the ...

Engineers have developed a simple, low-cost, passive prosthetic foot that they can tailor to an individual. Given a user's body weight and size, the researchers can tune the shape and stiffness of the ...

YOUNG BOY HAS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LIFE THANKS TO THE GENEROSITY OF A LOCAL HOSPITAL. THE BOY FROM SOUTH AMERICA WAS BORN WITH A SEVERE LEG DEFORMITY, RESTRICTING HIS ABILITY TO WALK AND PLAY LIKE A ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Prosthetic limbs have been around since at least 300 B.C., when a Roman nobleman used a leg made of bronze, iron and wood. And they've improved in ways that would have seemed nothing ...