With a new surgical intervention and neuroprosthetic interface, researchers restored a natural walking gait in people with amputations below the knee. Seven patients were able to walk faster, avoid ...

People with leg amputations were able to control their prosthetic limbs with their brains in a significant scientific advance that allows for a smoother gait and enhanced ability to navigate obstacles ...

For some time now, we've been hearing about prosthetic limbs that are designed to work with amputees' bodies. MIT researchers are taking a different approach, though, with a new type of amputation ...

The direct medical costs of falls in adults with a transfemoral amputation are described in a new article. In a new study published in Prosthetics and Orthotics International, Mayo Clinic researchers ...

FOR more than ten years there has been a tendency to use below-the-knee rather than supracondylar amputation at the New England Deaconess Hospital in the management of diabetic gangrene when more ...

Some days, Elisha Nolan gets stares from fellow patients at ProCare Physical Therapy in Carbondale. Sometimes, those stares turn to full-blown tears. There’s no need for that, though, she tells them. ...

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 ...

Ever since Hugh Herr lost both his legs to a rock-climbing accident, he’s been on a quest to design replacement limbs that feel like the real thing. It’s now possible to engineer light-weight custom ...

The Six Million Dollar Man is a step nearer reality after scientists successfully integrated a bionic knee into tissue to restore natural movement. American researchers developed a new bionic knee ...

Bespoke Innovations gives prosthetic legs an artistic flair. April 6, 2012— -- Three months after losing a leg to a rare type of bone cancer in November, Tony Phillips needed a prosthetic limb to ...