For the prosthetic leg race at Cybathlon 2024, ETH’s Competence Centre for Rehabilitation Engineering and Science (RESC) joined forces with Ottobock and ORTHO-TEAM to form Team Ottobock.X3. In this ...

Planning a busy schedule with her mom, 16-year-old Cara Pennington doesn't let her prosthetic leg slow her down. As a child, ...

Rowing is both technical and physically demanding. Now, a group of innovative engineering students is on a mission to make ...

NPOOTS has donated prosthetic limbs to the the victim of 2014 Nyanya bomb blast and one other in Abuja to aid movement ...

Advancements in robotics and bioengineering have led to the development of modern prosthetics that go beyond covering disfigurements, help instead to restore or even enhance motor, sensory, and neural ...

The Nigerian Prosthetist, Orthotist, and Orthopaedic Technology Society (NPOOTS) has donated prosthetic limbs to a victim of the ... Sanusi Usman, a beneficiary from Katsina State, said his legs were ...

After analysing emergency medical data, the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that at least 94,000 people are ...

The loss of a leg or part of a lower limb can have many causes. With younger people, the cause is usually a birth defect or an accident. With older people, it is more often cancer, infections and ...

King George's Medical University (KGMU) is acquiring a vacuum suction machine for the precise production of prosthetic limbs, ...

In the fight against antibiotic resistance, a new technology developed at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, can be of great importance when, for example, hip and knee implants are ...

Two lower limb prosthetic prototypes developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT - Italian Institute of Technology) ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Mary Free Bed sent a group of eight clinicians to Guatemala to build prosthetic legs for roughly 40 people in underserved communities. Lauren Jones, physical therapist ...