Alex Raspe, a 30-year-old Fontana resident, slips a cuff over his knee, snapping a high-tech prosthetic ankle where his left leg used to be. Raspe, who lost his leg in a motorcycle accident, is a ...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Freedom Innovations launches the next generation Kinnex microprocessor prosthetic ankle/foot – the Kinnex 2.0. The successor to the Freedom Innovations original ...

A Portsmouth woman said her life has been changed thanks to a new bionic foot.Connie Nason, 45, is the first person in New Hampshire to be fitted with a new type of prosthetic called the Elan.Fifteen ...

The next time Patrick Tierney hits the beach, he'll likely walk along the shorefront, crunching his feet atop the shifting sand. Then he’ll slowly wade into the surf making sure to keep his balance ...

"I had my leg amputated August 19, 1992," said Mike Addy, who was injured while working a road construction job. "I had a 10 ton steel roller fall on my left leg and my right foot." He tried many ...

HOUGHTON (WWJ) --Mo Rastgaar, an assistant professor at Michigan technological University, has received a National Science Foundation grant of nearly $500,000 to make his new artificial limb design a ...

Humans rarely walk the straight and narrow; something's always in the way. So scientists are developing a computer-controlled artificial limb that can turn like a flesh-and-blood foot. Walking is ...

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 ...

Developed by researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, the Ankle Mimicking Prosthetic-or AMP-Foot 2.0 is not only designed to give wearers an incredibly natural and lifelike gait, it ...

The natural movement and functional power of the ankle and foot during a step , while appearing fairly simple, are amazingly difficult to replicate with a prosthetic. Usually it requires a fast and ...

Walking is tricky business, as any toddler knows. And while most artificial feet and limbs do a pretty good job restoring mobility to people who have lost a leg, they have a ways to go before they ...