FLINT, MI — The HAP CareSource Crim Training Program, a program of the Crim Fitness Foundation, continues to grow its inclusivity efforts through a variety of training opportunities for adaptive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ortho-prosthetist Wivine Kavira Mukata, 28, prepares the prosthesis mold for Ajuamungu Kikoba, 17, a patient who came to the ...

Advances in biomechanics and prosthetic engineering have significantly transformed our understanding of running in amputee athletes. The integration of running‐specific prostheses (RSPs) has enabled ...

Artificial limbs look and function more like real limbs than ever before—but that's only helpful if they are used as intended ...

New research says adopting a new, attentional mindset in the field of physical therapy can help amputees live with prosthesis more naturally. There are more than two million people living with an ...

A recent case study demonstrates that, with training, neural control of a powered prosthetic ankle can restore a wide range of abilities, including standing on very challenging surfaces and squatting.

COLUMBIA, Tenn. — Greg Kroeker couldn't stop staring at the man with the unusual prosthetic leg in front of him at Lowe's. The leg has a "C"-shaped piece of hard-yet-bouncy plastic between the knee ...

With two new legs to stand on, Dymtro Dimakrasnovskye put all his effort into making a single step. “The most difficult ever for me was to make that first step,” the 24-year-old, double-leg amputee ...

A recent case study from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill demonstrates that, with training, neural control of a powered prosthetic ankle can restore ...

Robotic prosthetic ankles that are controlled by nerve impulses allow amputees to move more "naturally," improving their stability, according to a new study from North Carolina State University and ...