A man in our area is spending his last night without use of both his hands. This week, Walkabout Orthotics and Prosthetics in Wausau is fitting him for an advanced hand that will help him take his ...

How Advanced Prosthetics Turned This Man Into an 'Emerging Cyborg' Alec McMorris is an amputee testing out advanced prosthesis with Dr. Tommaso Lenzi at the University of Utah's Bionic Engineering Lab ...

Among individuals 65 years and older, as many as 30 percent have aortic valve sclerosis or stenosis and as a result of their deteriorating health, they cannot enjoy a normal lifestyle. "The aortic ...

A commercial robotic leg could potentially benefit both higher- and lower-mobility amputees, University of Michigan roboticists have shown for the first time. The leg provided the largest gains when ...

Artificial limbs have come a long way in recent years with the development of prostheses that can be controlled directly by the patient’s nerves. The problem is, links between living nerves and the ...

Hands can grab things, build things, communicate, and we control them intuitively with nothing more than a thought. To those who miss a hand, a prosthesis can be a life-changing tool for carrying out ...

21:23, Wed, Oct 11, 2023 Updated: 22:46, Wed, Oct 11, 2023 A woman from Sweden who lost her right hand in a farming accident has been implanted with a “groundbreaking” bionic hand that merges directly ...

Digital manufacturer Protolabs recently partnered with paralympic athlete ‘Monster’ Mike Schultz to create components for his advanced prosthesis that will enable him to race in the Adaptive Snow ...

A clinical trial led by Stanford University School of Medicine has demonstrated that a wireless retinal prosthesis can help restore vision lost to advanced macular degeneration. The results, published ...

BHUBANESWAR: The State government has started giving out advanced prosthesis and orthosis to deserving and needy persons with disabilities (PwDs). While the service is free of cost for those living ...