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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...