Losing an arm cuts more than muscle and bone. It also severs the easy, wordless link between what you want to do and what ...

New powered prosthetics are being designed to work in harmony with the body, aiming to prevent the chronic pain and ...

The prosthetics field’s main problem isn’t just designing better devices — it’s the lack of data to guide which device is best for each patient, according to one executive in the space. Josh Caputo, ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- Tens of thousands of Americans suffer arm amputations, some on the battlefield, but most due to car accidents and other traumatic injuries. Now, with funding from the National ...

Researchers in Europe have developed a prosthetic hand that gave an Italian man with a missing limb the ability to feel sensations of warmth and coolness when touching various objects. The new device ...

Researchers have developed a new algorithm that combines two processes for personalizing robotic prosthetic devices to both ...

FLINT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WJRT) - Legs, arms, hands, feet , they’re parts of the body that many people take for granted. But for amputees, using a prosthetic device is the closest thing they’ll get to ...

Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, is accustomed to being presented with problems people think he should solve. Usually he says no, as he was fully expecting to do when he met with a Department of ...

John Francis was born without part of his right arm and hand. As he grew older, everyday tasks like getting dressed, going to ...

Research on prosthetic hands has come a long way, but most of it has focused on improving the way the body controls the device. Now, it may also be possible for prosthetic hands to send signals back ...

AdvaMed has welcomed adjustments to the CMS’s competitive bidding programme yet remains concerned over patient access issues.