Prosthetic limbs have come a long way in look and functionality (there are even bionic legs)! But, unfortunately, there’s no way some of the people who could benefit most from them could ever afford ...

The low-tech prosthetic knee performs nearly as well as high-end prosthetics, at a fraction of cost In the last two decades, prosthetic limb technology has grown by leaps and bounds. Today, the most ...

In developing countries, most poor amputees who lose their legs receive prosthetics with single-axis knee joints — similar to a door hinge — that are unstable and can buckle. D-Rev, a nonprofit that ...

Locomotor disability is a significant problem in India, with an estimated 1% of the population suffering from it. Of them, 7.7% are transfemoral amputees. Transfemoral amputation also known as “above ...

Researchers found that a preoperative measurement of a patient’s femoral valgus angle could help them reduce the number of outliers of femoral component positioning in total knee arthroplasty and may ...

A new lower-limb prosthetic developed at Vanderbilt University allows amputees to walk without the leg-dragging gait characteristic of conventional artificial legs. The device uses the latest advances ...

For decades, knee replacement surgery has been guided by the concept of a single mechanical alignment. “Surgery was standardised, and every knee was treated the same. The goal was to restore a ...

Culturing of samples of periprosthetic tissue is the standard method used for the microbiologic diagnosis of prosthetic-joint infection, but this method is neither sensitive nor specific. In ...