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.

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 ...

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 person wearing the prosthesis often has little say in ... half of whom had received below-knee amputations through an approach known as the Agonist-antagonist Myoneural Interface — AMI ...

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 ...

In standard below-the-knee amputations, muscles that control the foot are wrapped around the stump to create a soft padding, which makes the prosthetic more comfortable. However, this process ...

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 ...

But traditional below-the-knee amputations disrupt these interactions, interfering with a person’s ability to sense exactly where their prosthetic limb is located. In addition, connecting these ...

On May 31, 2023, as she headed into surgery to have her leg below the knee amputated, Paralympic medalist Ali Truwit was unsure if she would ever be able to walk again. Exactly two years later—on her ...

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 ...