Businessman and father of the Ball Brothers, the 57-year-old LaVar Ball had his right foot and part of his lower right leg amputated earlier in February 2025. The amputations were done in three stages ...

Genoa (Italy), 30 October 2024: Two lower limb prosthetic prototypes developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT - Italian Institute of Technology) took the podium at Cybathlon 2024, the ...

A commercial robotic leg could potentially benefit both higher- and lower-mobility amputees, University of Michigan roboticists have shown for the first time. The leg provided the largest gains when ...

If the inner socket of a prosthetic leg doesn't conform to the contours of the user's leg stump, considerable pain and even skin ulcers may result. A new prosthesis should help keep that from ...

A miniature donkey named Elsa is now home for the holidays after surviving a severe bone infection that resulted in the ...

LITTLE EGG HARBOR - At every high school commencement, there is some version of a speech about the twists and turns in the road ahead, facing life’s challenges, and the importance of being a good ...

One year after the international Cybathlon 2024 competition, an Italian team has published a focus article in Science Robotics on the Omnia bionic leg, which took first place in the leg prosthesis ...

BELMAR - It’s a Tuesday morning at AMP’D Fitness. AmyMarie DeLuca is doing squat thrusts — 10 of them, with a 45-pound bar. The weight is beside the point for this 41-year-old Belmar resident. She’s ...

MOUNT VERNON, New York (WABC) -- After a five-year-old endured a life-threatening illness, doctors gave him new tools to brighten his future. Steffon Carter started first grade at Mt Pleasant ...

A San Antonio boy was riding his bike on the sidewalk last year when he fell and broke his leg. Doctors who performed emergency surgery that night questioned why the femur broke so easily, his mother ...