A one-of-a-kind fashion show held in Boston’s Seaport over the weekend spotlighted adaptive clothing and a foundation created following the Boston Marathon bombing to help amputees. Teaming up with ...
Shark Tank deal winner, Erica Cole began working with the idea of prosthetics when she lost her leg in 2018. Since then, she’s created a business called No Limbits to put adaptive clothing for ...
Amputees have been outfitted with a prosthesis that is integrated with muscle and bone. The new creation allows patients to walk faster and avoid obstacles better than they could with past prostheses.
The prosthesis tries to replicate the nervous system’s feedback loop. The issue: People who walk on both legs rely on constant feedback between their nerves and their brain to get around. But people ...
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A new documentary will premiere next week, putting a spotlight on three different athletes who have lost a leg. It’s called “The Power of Sports for Amputees,” proving that ...
There's been a lot of research into how to give robots and prosthesis wearers a sense of touch, but it has focused largely on the hands. Now, researchers led by ETH Zurich want to restore sensory ...
Losing a leg due to injury, illness or congenital condition is a devastating experience that has a profound impact on a person’s life, requiring significant physical and emotional adjustment. I know ...