Ortho-prosthetist Wivine Kavira Mukata, 28, prepares the prosthesis mold for Ajuamungu Kikoba, 17, a patient who came to the Shirika la Umoja orthopedic center for a prosthesis change in Goma, North ...

The new flexing prosthetic finger developed by Medical Art Prosthetics addresses this challenge with a unique body-driven ...

NEWTON, Mass. — She was orphaned during Rwanda’s genocide and lost much of one of her legs to childhood cancer, but Claudine Humure has dreams of giving back to her once war-torn homeland. First, ...

Along with a growing number of war-wounded amputees, Mykhailo Varvarych and Iryna Botvynska are navigating an altered destiny ...

Sensory feedback is important for amputees to be able to explore and interact with their environment. Now, researchers have developed a device that allows amputees to sense and respond to temperature ...

Advances in biomechanics and prosthetic engineering have significantly transformed our understanding of running in amputee athletes. The integration of running‐specific prostheses (RSPs) has enabled ...

Ross Holland discovered a unique way to wear his prosthetic legs by turning the feet backward. "It's so much more comfortable. It's so much easier," said Holland, a 34-year-old who lives in Gettysburg ...

Sensory feedback is important for amputees to be able to explore and interact with their environment. Now, researchers have developed a device that allows amputees to sense and respond to temperature ...

DOTHAN, Ala (WDHN) — Having a limb amputated can completely turn your world upside down, and some people treat the procedure ...

Prosthetic limbs have come a really long way from being peg legs, hooks, and whatnot. The most advanced ones right now are often imbued with advanced robotics, which offer far more function and a ...

Last April, 69-year-old Brenda Ogden lost her custom-made titanium blade-style prosthesis moments before a swim in the North ...