A new bionic knee allows amputees to walk faster, climb stairs more easily, and adroitly avoid obstacles, researchers reported in the journal Science.

Ukrainian soldiers who were on the brink of death after losing limbs to Russia’s invading army are now back on the frontlines, equipped with new prosthetics and the determination to help them… ...

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Reducing energy consumption during walking is a critical goal for transtibial amputees. The study presents the evaluation of a semi-active prosthesis with five transtibial amputees. The prosthesis has ...

Everything changed when the first microprocessor-controlled knee (MPK) came to market in 1997.

Researchers from the USA used commercially available electrodes for closed-loop spinal cord stimulation in three individuals with transtibial amputation.

The pace of advancement in prosthetics technology is only accelerating—but so will the cost.

Residual ankle muscles (i.e., previously antagonistic ankle muscles) of transtibial amputees are a potential source for continuous feedforward control of powered ankle prostheses using proportional ...

Keywords: phantom limb pain (PLP), somatosensory cortex (SI), peroneal nerve stimulation, somatosensory evoked fields (SEF), MEG, transtibial amputation Citation: Ritter C, Geisler M, Blume KR, ...