An engineering professor hopes to develop an alternative below-knee prosthesis capable of actively powering the ankle joint for amputees. Most people probably do not spend much time contemplating the ...

SURGICAL opinion varies widely as to the advisability of performing below-knee amputations in limbs that exhibit diminished circulation at the level of amputation. It has been shown that below-knee ...

Three of these, nevertheless, walked with a prosthesis after the amputation, 1 below the knee on the other side and 2 above the knee. After the operation here being evaluated, 16 patients subsequently ...

In Jaipur, India, about 150 patients show up every day at an organization that creates low-cost prosthetic limbs for people with mobility problems. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on ...