With a new surgical intervention and neuroprosthetic interface, researchers restored a natural walking gait in people with amputations below the knee. Seven patients were able to walk faster, avoid ...

A team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in collaboration with researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have designed a new prosthetic for below-the-knee amputees that ...

Prosthetic legs can be life-changing. Neo KirchBaby understands this well. She was born with a birth defect, something she explained in a video detailing her journey as a double amputee. Essentially, ...

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Although he hates to admit it, Lincoln High track coach Bob White might go a bit easier on his sprinters now that he's been reminded of just how difficult is to run. "This?" he said, referring to the ...

State-of-the-art prosthetic limbs can help people with amputations achieve a natural walking gait, but they don’t give the user full neural control over the limb. Instead, they rely on robotic sensors ...