Prosthetic legs can be life-changing. Neo KirchBaby understands this well. She was born with a birth defect, something she explained in a video detailing her journey as a double amputee. Essentially, ...

A prosthetic leg that can feel helped two men walk faster, more smoothly and with greater confidence. The artificial leg, outfitted with sensors that detect pressure and motion, also curbed phantom ...

Tiny electrodes implanted in the patients' thigh nerve allow them to feel natural sensations of touch and movement from the prosthesis. Therefore, the amputees can walk freely while thinking about ...

NC State’s team is pushing prosthetic technology forward, combining mechanical assistance with artificial intelligence to ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a new prosthetic leg that can be controlled via brain signals, an achievement that could greatly enhance the experience of walking with a bionic limb for amputees. As ...

My husband Mark and I were already foster carers when, in February 2015, we were asked whether we would foster a little boy who was in hospital. I met Tony for the first time on February 7, 2015 at ...

An improved prosthetic leg device outfitted with a number of external sensors, representing foot touch and pressure and knee joint angle, transmit sensory signals back to the nervous system through a ...

One little girl in Lincoln is the first person with a rare congenital disease to ever walk, and she's only three. Emberlyn was told by doctors that she would most likely never have feeling below her ...

It’s amazing how many things you need to think of as a runner to prepare for a race. You train for months, many hours a day (and night): walking, running, building a strong core, and boosting your ...