A commercial robotic leg could potentially benefit both higher- and lower-mobility amputees, University of Michigan ...

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Dr. Beth Wyatt, a former professor at Henderson State University, is used to doing the teaching, but over the past year and a half, she's been the one doing the learning—learning ...

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A smoother experience for robotic prosthetic leg users is the aim of a University of Michigan project that has received renewed support from the National Institutes of Health. The R01 grant of $3 ...

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 ...

Kicking a ball or climbing stairs with ease after a leg amputation above the knee is now within reach. Researchers at MIT have developed a bionic knee that redefines mobility for above-the-knee ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Sometimes you meet people that just put things into perspective and that is certainly the case with Jim Murray. Murray is a 34-year-old Upstate husband and father ...

In the moments after a 130-foot tree fell on his legs, Jake Hanes thought he was paralyzed. “It was a heart-wrenching time. I just remember holding onto the stump and gasping for air,” he said. He ...