WORCESTER - Sister Maureen Lewis has been saying her prayers standing up or sitting down since her right leg was amputated in November 2015, but with her new microprocessor knee, her prosthetists at ...

Donald Crosby, injured by a gunshot wound during combat in the Vietnam War, has worn a prosthetic leg since 1971, so he can attest to how much better prostheses are now compared with then. “The very ...

UPDATE: May 8, 2019: Ottobock said it was disappointed in FTC's decision but said it would continue to "work in a collaborative manner with the FTC to promptly reach a mutually beneficial resolution." ...

WASHINGTON (Dec. 10, 2009) -- Several wounded warriors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center are testing a new microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knee. The X2 microprocessor knee, the result of a ...

The direct medical costs of falls in adults with a transfemoral amputation are described in a new article. In a new study published in Prosthetics and Orthotics International, Mayo Clinic researchers ...

Evelyn Bennett recently did something she had not done since November – she walked the aisles of a Wal-Mart with nothing but a shopping cart.

You probably don’t want to lose a leg, but if you have to there are many options now that were unthinkable not long ago. That is, if you can afford them. A microprocessor knee — a prosthetic with some ...

A microprocessor-controlled knee (MPK) which is ten times cheaper against imported ones has been developed the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). A microprocessor-controlled knee (MPK) which ...

Chennai, Sep 23 (IANS) The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday said it has developed a microprocessor-controlled knee (MPK) which is ten times cheaper against imported ones. According ...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Freedom Innovations, an Irvine, CA-based manufacturer of advanced technology prosthetic devices, has officially launched its new Plié 3 Microprocessor Controlled (MPC) ...

It took a 40-foot fall to set Jonathan Bik on a collision course with the brave new world of the bionic knee. The fall happened nine years ago when Bik was descending a utility pole during a tryout ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- In a new study published in Prosthetics and Orthotics International, Mayo Clinic researchers describe the direct medical costs of falls in adults with a transfemoral amputation. In ...