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Surfing Buddies Collaborate on Prosthetic Socket System: Design Aims for Adjustability and Shortened Delivery Time
Technological advances and improvements in prosthetic sockets have progressed considerably in the last two decades. However, when it comes to...
Read moreDetailsHigh School Student Creates Prosthetic Hand
"Making and taking things apart is a very common 'cleverness' of boys," write Ros Bayley and Sally Featherstone in The...
Read moreDetailsOrpyx: Putting Feet First with “Sole-Full” Technology
Get your feet wet. Get your foot in the door. Put your feet to the fire. Get off on the...
Read moreDetailsRobo-Legs Provide Insight into Human Gait
The Achilles leg built at the University of Arizona. Photographs courtesy of the University of Arizona. Developing O&P devices that...
Read moreDetailsNew Central Fabrication Technology Steps Onstage
"There's a way to do it better—find it." —Thomas Edison (1847-1931) When one of the world's fastest amputees, Jerome Singleton,...
Read moreDetailsCollege Student Develops Pain Free Socket
Device aims to eliminate phantom pain in amputees using thermal biofeedback. Katherine Bomkamp, a West Virginia University sophomore, developed the...
Read moreDetailsCadence Biomedical’s Kinetic Orthosis
First Steps: Inspired by nature, Cadence Biomedical's Kinetic Orthosis helps users walk. After Heather Montag took her first solo steps...
Read moreDetailsBeyond Control: The First Untethered Power-Assist AFO
What do paintball pistols, earth movers, and a first-of-its-kind orthosis prototype have in common? They're all driven by fluid power,...
Read moreDetailsHelping Kids With Their Leaps and Bounds
Advanced Biofidelic Lower Extremity Kids (ABLE Kids) Prosthesis Project aims to help kids hit the playground running. Prosthetics manufacturers have...
Read moreDetailsWest Point Bionic Foot Achieves Powered Running
Over the past few millennia, lower-limb prostheses have evolved by leaps and bounds. We know that the oldest-known surviving ones,...
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