Anschutz Medical Campus, US, have developed the Colorado Limb Donning-Timed Up and Go (COLD-TUG) test that measures both the ...

A test developed at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus that measures both prosthetic donning time and ...

But she was only able to use the bionic lower leg in ... from their prosthetic. By contrast, the device Herr developed includes electrodes placed on the skin above the point of amputation, outside ...

The new device, which is described today in Nature Medicine, could help people with lower-leg amputations feel as if their prosthesis is part of them. “When you ask a patient ‘What is your ...

Thanks to a neural interface, people can move this bionic limb naturally—just by thinking about it. When someone loses part of a leg, a prosthetic can make it easier to get around. But most ...

People with leg amputations were able to control their prosthetic limbs with their brains ... to gradual destruction of our hip joints or our lower spine,” said Matthew J. Carty, a ...

In conventional below-the-knee amputations, these muscles are severed, disrupting proprioception and making it difficult for people to control their prosthetic ... of the lower leg, and the ...

Patients who undergo lower limb amputations need targeted interventions that provide them with purpose and agency to resume ...

Twelve patients were chosen from a total of 27 who had lower-limb amputations at the Massachusetts ... he felt that he could be a new man once the prosthesis was applied. He had never stopped ...

For John Rheinstein, a lower and upper limb prosthetic specialist and clinic manager at the Hanger Clinic in New York, the physical prosthesis is only part of a successful amputation outcome.

The Move For Jenn Foundation fundraised for Landon Graham's new running blade so the 7-year-old can pick up where he left off ...

Tasmanian Amputee Society chief executive Peter Hatters said Tasmania had the highest rate of diabetes-related lower limb amputations in Australia. He described Tasmanian amputees as the most ...