A local amputee is taking steps pain free after years of struggling with a standard artificial limb. Now fitted with new ...

Graduate students in the prosthetics and orthotics program also are learning how to use melted polypropylene to wrap a model leg — cast from one of their fellow students — and to cut and smooth it to ...

"Smart" prosthetic legs can help amputees achieve a natural walking gait, but it's done through robotic sensors and algorithms that drive the limb forward at predetermined rates. A better way would be ...

NEWTON, Mass. — She was orphaned during Rwanda’s genocide and lost much of one of her legs to childhood cancer, but Claudine Humure has dreams of giving back to her once war-torn homeland. First, ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) – “Two-one-two-two,” Rustin Hughes shouts above blaring music and the sound of fists hitting leather punching bags. He plants his right leg and holds up boxing mitts as Kim ...

A video shared on TikTok by user @bettyandherboots introduces Betty, a rescue dog whose journey has been anything but ...

CHICKASAW, Ala. (WKRG) – Chickasaw High School students flew out of Mobile Regional Airport on Friday morning to deliver prosthetic legs they’ve spent the last year making for amputees in developing ...

When Michael Adams was researching health insurance options in 2023, he had one very specific requirement: coverage for prosthetic limbs. Adams, 51, lost his right leg to cancer 40 years ago, and he ...

Betty's owners told Newsweek they "never expected that kind of mobility" so soon after getting the prosthetic leg fitted.

This story is part of The Salt Lake Tribune’s ongoing commitment to identify solutions to Utah’s biggest challenges through the work of the Innovation Lab. [Subscribe to our newsletter here] Alec ...

A heap of plastic leg sockets rests on a shelf. Palestinian technicians in white lab coats scurry past. They slip into side rooms to sand down leg molds, mix chemicals, cut and polish plastics with ...

OREGON CITY, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon City police are searching for the person responsible for stealing a man’s custom-fitted ...