After years of blistering, discomfort and even breaking his prosthetic leg 4 miles into a mud race, 31-year-old Broc Potts needed a solution. In December, Potts said he received the final step of an ...

"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 ...

At the heart of this breakthrough is a surgical procedure known as the agonist-antagonist myoneural interface, or AMI. Unlike traditional amputation methods, the AMI reconnects muscles in the residual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A surgery developed at MIT, called agonist-antagonist myoneural interface (AMI), connects muscle remnants from the shin and the ...

Anatomical Sciences for O&P is designed to provide the student an extensive background in the fundamentals of human anatomy with an emphasis on musculoskeletal systems as related to physical ...

“One reason for this is likely because they are receiving very little direct feedback about the behavior of the device – they can’t see themselves moving,” Huang says. “This raises the possibility of ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina and Arizona State University have developed an intelligent system for "tuning" powered prosthetic knees, allowing ...

Researchers have developed an intelligent system for 'tuning' powered prosthetic knees, allowing patients to walk comfortably with the prosthetic device in minutes, rather than the hours necessary if ...

Juan Sebastian Valtierra is an active 12-year-old boy. With a busy competitive figure skating schedule and volleyball games, he doesn’t have time for his prosthetic leg to fail him. But that’s exactly ...

The prosthetics field’s main problem isn’t just designing better devices — it’s the lack of data to guide which device is best for each patient, according to one executive in the space. Josh Caputo, ...

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi highlight the critical differences that make animal prosthetics a specialized field ...