"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 ...

Thanks to a neural interface, people can move this bionic limb naturally—just by thinking about it. When someone loses part of a leg, a prosthetic can make it easier to get around. But most ...

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. "This kind of fluke ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - When walking through life, taking the first step can be a challenge. And, when tragedy strikes, it’s a motion that can feel impossible. So, after losing his leg in a boating ...

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 necessity to ...

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 ...

Paralympic track-and-field star and Lululemon ambassador Hunter Woodhall shares what his global travels are like wearing two prosthetic legs. When I was born, I had a congenital birth defect called ...