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 ...

This makes a total failure rate of 4 per cent for the below-the-knee amputations in this group. Table 3 shows that 63 patients walked with a prosthesis at some time after the below-the-knee ...

A new surgical technique for below-the-knee amputations retains a person’s ability to receive sensory feedback from remaining muscles. Having a prosthetic leg driven by an amputee’s own ...

Doctors completed a below-the-knee amputation of her right leg ... She started to experience pain every time she used her prosthetic limb. No amount of modifications seemed to help.

Almost all patients were able to use this permanent prosthesis within two months after amputation. The degree of rehabilitation was carefully assessed in all 12 patients with healed below-knee ...

the researchers compared seven people who had the AMI surgery with seven who had traditional below-the-knee amputations. All of the subjects used the same type of bionic limb: a prosthesis with a ...

In the study, researchers compared seven AMI amputees with seven people who had traditional below-the-knee amputations. All participants used the same type of bionic leg -- a prosthesis with a ...

This scientific achievement allows the user to flex, point, and rotate the prosthetic leg by thought ... patients to have a new type of below-the-knee amputation surgery called agonist-antagonist ...

Ben Hogan, a certified prosthetist and orthotist working for Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital at Covenant Healthcare in ...