GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — For many amputees, the process of getting an additional prosthetic can be costly. One Michigan native, set out to bring awareness to that very issue. Nicole Ver Kuilen lost her ...

NC State’s team is pushing prosthetic technology forward, combining mechanical assistance with artificial intelligence to ...

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 ...

"It happened so quickly," a grateful Monica Swindall tells PEOPLE Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work previously appeared in the ...

Fabrizio Passetti, an amputee surfer from Italy, couldn't stop grinning when he saw his new prosthetic leg. "The feeling is good," Passetti said inside the Channel Islands Prosthetics-Orthotics office ...

As amazing as the human body is, it’s unfortunately not as amazing as e.g. axolotl bodies are, in the sense that they can regrow entire limbs and more. This has left us humans with the ...

IT’S NOT EVERY DAY THAT YOU SEE SOMEONE WALKING WITH THE FOOT ON THEIR PROSTHETIC LEG FACING BACKWARDS, BUT THIS IS A REALITY FOR ROSS HOLLAND. IT’S SO MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE. IT’S SO MUCH EASIER.

I have been an above-knee amputee for over 50 years. For the first 30 years, my prosthesis was balsa wood with a simple mechanical knee. I fell a lot, could only walk at one fixed speed, would sweat ...