Other
'Leg Bank' hope for changing amputees' lives
A 'leg bank' - providing life-changing prostheses to low-income people who have lost limbs - is being developed by a team including University of Strathclyde researchers.
May 6, 2015
0
6
Page 6 - News tagged with prosthetic limbs
Other
Amputees found to shy away from prosthetics
Local researchers have predicted several points in time in which lower-limb amputees may stop using their prostheses after they are discharged from rehab.
Dec 9, 2014
0
0
Medical research
Researchers to build wearable interface to make prosthetics more comfortable
UT Arlington researchers have been awarded a $744,300 grant from the Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Orthapaedic Research Program to create an adaptive interface that fits between a prosthetic and a patient's limb so ...
Oct 9, 2014
0
0
Medical research
Amputee feels in real-time with bionic hand wired to nerves (w/ video)
Nine years after an accident caused the loss of his left hand, Dennis Aabo Sørensen from Denmark became the first amputee in the world to feel – in real-time – with a sensory-enhanced prosthetic hand that was surgically ...
Feb 5, 2014
1
0
Psychology & Psychiatry
Prosthetic hands viewed as eerie by the public, new study shows
Members of the public would prefer to look at human hands or robotic hands rather than prosthetic hands which they view as eerie, a new study by The University of Manchester has shown.
Nov 11, 2013
0
0
Neuroscience
A blueprint for restoring touch with a prosthetic hand
New research at the University of Chicago is laying the groundwork for touch-sensitive prosthetic limbs that one day could convey real-time sensory information to amputees via a direct interface with the brain.
Oct 14, 2013
0
0
Medical research
Bionic leg is controlled by brain power
The act of walking may not seem like a feat of agility, balance, strength and brainpower. But lose a leg, as Zac Vawter did after a motorcycle accident in 2009, and you will appreciate the myriad calculations that go into ...
Sep 27, 2013
0
0
Medical research
New robotic leg gets closer to the real thing, study says
(HealthDay)—Scientists report early progress in efforts to create better robotic legs that will sense nerve signals and know how their users want to move.
Sep 25, 2013
0
0
Other
Pain of artificial legs could be eased by real-time monitoring
When Ron Bailey lost his right leg below the knee 10 years ago after a head-on collision, he was fitted with a prosthetic leg and began learning to use it in his daily life as a real estate agent in Federal Way, Wash.
Jul 23, 2013
0
0
Other
3-legged donkey Emma: A lesson for veterinarians
(AP)—Emma the miniature donkey runs around the barnyard and kicks playfully like most any animal her size. But she lacks one thing: A right hind leg.
Jul 18, 2013
0
0
