In the United States, approximately 185,000 people have an amputation each year, 507 people lose a limb each day, and 2.1 million people currently live with limb loss. By 2050, this number will reach ...
A patient dubbed “the real bionic woman” has become the first to receive a robotic limb fused with both her nervous and skeletal systems. Karin, a 50-year-old woman from Sweden, had the intelligent ...
Ortho-prosthetist Wivine Kavira Mukata, 28, prepares the prosthesis mold for Ajuamungu Kikoba, 17, a patient who came to the Shirika la Umoja orthopedic center for a prosthesis change in Goma, North ...
UT Health San Antonio has launched the multidisciplinary Limb Optimization Program, which will deliver advanced care for individuals with congenital conditions, deformities or dysfunction due to ...
David Brockman, a retired CalFire captain and avid outdoorsman, built a deck in the backyard of his home last year, without the use of his dominant right hand, which he lost in an accident. The ...
If the Six Million Dollar Man had a sidekick, it would be one of these animals. April 22, 2014— -- If the Six Million Dollar Man had a pet sidekick, it would probably be one of these incredible ...
In a photoshoot Kelly Knox—a British model and disability-rights advocate—poses with a prosthetic limb unlike any other. Ms Knox was born with her left arm missing from the elbow down. From the point ...
More than five dozen donated prosthetic limbs were disassembled into smaller components Thursday by students from Touro University in Central Islip before the parts are shipped through a humanitarian ...