"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 ...

Smart, Customizable Prothetic Socket—Knee Joint Type. Credit: Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), an institution under the ...

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 ...

Ross Holland discovered a unique way to wear his prosthetic legs by turning the feet backward. "It's so much more comfortable. It's so much easier," said Holland, a 34-year-old who lives in Gettysburg ...

ROCHESTER — Meghan Erickson became a prosthetic user before she could even remember. She was born with a birth defect called amniotic band syndrome, when the amniotic sac is entangled around part of ...

Students at Gulfport High School are changing lives far beyond the classroom. They’re building prosthetic legs for people in ...