Some higher-end prosthetic legs are equipped with things like gyroscopes and accelerometers, in order to guide their knee joint through a more natural bending motion. In developing nations, however, ...

It didn't take long for him to realize his new metal knee, which worked fine for walking around in everyday life, was not cooperating once he mounted his bike. It wasn't durable or agile enough to ...

Kicking a ball or climbing stairs with ease after a leg amputation above the knee is now within reach. Researchers at MIT have developed a bionic knee that redefines mobility for above-the-knee ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a method to restore astoundingly natural movement in people who have had leg amputations above the knee. Rather than fit ...

MANCHESTER-- Within a year or so, Jack Daly's left knee should work about as well as the knee of most 50 year olds, as long as he remembers to keep it charged. Daly, a truck driver who lost both his ...

All too often, the prosthetic knees available for amputees in the developing world are clunky and poorly designed. D-Rev, a Bay Area-based nonprofit that designs products for people living on under $4 ...

Paralympics also has a unique logo. The Olympics have the rings, Paralympics has the Agitos. In summer, wheelchair rugby is ...

The ReMotion Knee lets people in the developing world share some of our advanced prosthetic technology, but at a price you can afford if you make $4 a day. After he lost his leg in a traffic accident, ...

WASHINGTON, DC — A new study by the RAND Corp showing that amputees who receive microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knees (MPKs) have fewer falls and injuries than those who get older devices could ...

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 ...

In Jaipur, India, about 150 patients show up every day at an organization that creates low-cost prosthetic limbs for people with mobility problems. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on ...

Researchers report that they have designed a cheap prosthetic knee that mimics normal walking motion. The team reports that it has calculated the ideal torque that a prosthetic knee should produce, ...