The latest advance in wearable robotic technology promises to solve a 200-year-old problem by revolutionizing the fit of prosthetic limbs, transforming the lives of millions of amputees worldwide. The ...

A British amputee has built his own swimming prosthetic using inexpensive parts bought online after learning that a ...

Sensory feedback is important for amputees to be able to explore and interact with their environment. Now, researchers have developed a device that allows amputees to sense and respond to temperature ...

A double amputee sprinter has won the right to be eligible to compete at this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing after sport's highest court backed his appeal against a ban imposed by athletics ...

Chafing, blisters and sores are common problems for people fitted with an artificial limb. The artificial limb's fixed, rigid shape can't adapt to changes in a person's body, ultimately causing it to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ross Holland discovered a unique way to wear his prosthetic legs by turning the feet backwards. Holland, who has been using ...

A new study published in Science Advances suggests that vibrating small magnets implanted inside the muscles of an amputated ...

Sensory feedback is important for amputees to be able to explore and interact with their environment. Now, researchers have developed a device that allows amputees to sense and respond to temperature ...

A Pennsylvania teen is defying all odds after losing his legs and most of his arms due to an illness at just 3 years old.

Retired U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Jon Kuniholm (left) and Army Maj. Marc Hoffmeister pause during roped team movement on Pika Glacier in Alaska, 2008.Army photo Few entrepreneurs can claim as intimate a ...