Innovations

Advanced Biofidelic Lower Extremity Kids (ABLE Kids) Prosthesis Project aims to help kids hit the playground running. Prosthetics manufacturers have...

Over the past few millennia, lower-limb prostheses have evolved by leaps and bounds. We know that the oldest-known surviving ones,...

Galileo Galilei had a problem with data. The titan among Renaissance scientist-philosophers had exhorted his fellows to "measure what is...

Unless the prosthesis provides a comfortable, pain-free experience for the amputee, the most technologically advanced componentry available may simply end...

'Green' foot could make walking with a prosthetic foot easier and more efficient In this energy-recycling foot, the University of...

The use of stem cells is one of the most promising, yet ethically controversial issues in modern medicine. The primordial...

Wheelchairs can open the door to mobility and independence—quite the opposite of what is implied in such common expressions as...

A fast, minimally invasive technique appears to provide long-term relief from plantar-fasciitis pain. Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause...

The power of the brain is being harnessed in astonishing ways, and the implications for people with limb loss, paralysis,...

Osteosarcoma, the most common primary bone cancer, strikes about 900 people per year in the United States, 400 of them...