An amputee can feel his wife's hand using advanced prosthetic technology after signing up for an experimental research project. Brandon Prestwood lost his left hand in 2012. He was reassembling an ...

Special-effects prosthetics specialist, Sophie de Oliveira Barata, is an expert at making lifelike limbs. (So lifelike you’ll wonder if Barata doesn’t have Dexter working in her back office.) But for ...

A NEW TYPE OF PROSTHETIC IS GIVING PARTIAL FINGER AMPUTEES MORE INDEPENDENCE. — SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - In just 10 minutes, life went from normal to forever changed for Allyson Watson. “The sheriff came to ...

A new surgical technique for below-the-knee amputations retains a person’s ability to receive sensory feedback from remaining muscles. Having a prosthetic leg driven by an amputee’s own nervous system ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN FRANCISCO — Blind patients with no or bare light perception implanted with a visual cortical prosthesis have ...

WASHINGTON — Some post-9/11 combat veterans say they’re facing challenges when it comes to getting care and prosthetics from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs after having an amputation.

Oscar-winning prosthetics artist admits creating a cauliflower ear for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in “The Smashing Machine” was the easiest thing for him to make. In the film, Johnson plays real-life ...

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) has become an indispensable tool in the development and optimisation of hip prostheses, offering a robust computational method to simulate the mechanical behaviour of ...