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

Our experts will help you find the best and most appropriate prosthesis (artificial body part) for you — whether you are missing a limb or have multiple amputations. We collaborate with prosthetists ...

State-of-the-art prosthetic limbs can help people with amputations achieve a natural walking gait, but they don’t give the user full neural control over the limb. Instead, they rely on robotic ...

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 ...

People with leg amputations were able to control their prosthetic limbs with their brains in a significant scientific advance that allows for a smoother gait and enhanced ability to navigate ...

Europeans went from hesitating to perform amputations and few options for ... CC BY-SA] This reflected a world in which prosthetics were not yet “medical.” In the U.S. today, a doctor ...

The person essentially has to respond to the signals from their prosthetic. By contrast, the device Herr developed includes electrodes placed on the skin above the point of amputation, outside the ...

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 ...

Seven patients were able to walk faster, avoid obstacles, and climb stairs more naturally than people with a traditional amputation. State-of-the-art prosthetic limbs can help people with ...