ROYSTON, Ga. - At 16 months, Bentley is one of the youngest amputees in physical therapy at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite, but he is also one of the most determined. "He's ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 year after Hailey Konesko had one leg amputated after being hit head-on by a side-by-side, she continues to navigate life with a prosthetic leg and re-learn how to do many things. The 21-year-old ...
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 ...