With two new legs to stand on, Dymtro Dimakrasnovskye put all his effort into making a single step. “The most difficult ever for me was to make that first step,” the 24-year-old, double-leg amputee ...

CHICAGO -- A 19-year-old who lost both legs during in a car crash last year got a new set of prosthetic legs, thanks to a Boston Marathon bombing survivor. Heather Abbott was cheering on marathon ...

BYU 2ft Prosthetic Club volunteers smile at the camera among bags of 450 pounds of prosthetic materials at the Salt Lake City International Airport. This group of volunteers traveled and served ...

A Palestinian amputee, who spent three months in Cincinnati to receive a prosthetic limb, was killed last month while being caught in the ongoing attacks on Gaza. Twenty-three-year-old Mohammad Al ...

"Smart" prosthetic legs can help amputees achieve a natural walking gait, but it's done through robotic sensors and algorithms that drive the limb forward at predetermined rates. A better way would be ...

An amputee has built a prosthetic leg using LEGO. Christina Stevens, 31, posted a video to YouTube of herself building the leg last month and the video has attracted almost 900,000 views in less than ...

Touch Bionics has designed a pair of highly-advanced prosthetic hands for a double amputee. What makes the technology so impressive is the range of grips the user can choose from — 24 in total, all of ...

Amputees have been outfitted with a prosthesis that is integrated with muscle and bone. The new creation allows patients to walk faster and avoid obstacles better than they could with past prostheses.

Advances in biomechanics and prosthetic engineering have significantly transformed our understanding of running in amputee athletes. The integration of running‐specific prostheses (RSPs) has enabled ...

A U.S. Army soldier is participating in a clinical trial at Walter Reed testing a neural-enabled prosthetic limb designed to ...