Phantom limb pain is a common problem for people who undergo amputation, and so is the ability to function even with a regular prosthetic, but a medical advance that sounds like it comes straight out ...

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A Utah family is hoping their insurance company will reconsider a recent decision that denied their daughter a “life-changing” new prosthetic. Remi Bateman, 9, was born without a hand below the elbow, ...

Ten years ago, Easton LaChappelle was a teen watching YouTube videos in his Colorado bedroom on how to build robot arms from LEGOs. Today, he's the founder of Unlimited Tomorrow, a company that ...

Some prosthetics require users to flex their muscles to make simple movements. An Atom Limbs prosthesis taps into the signals their brain is sending. Segway Inventor Creates Revolutionary ...

A surgery developed at MIT, called agonist-antagonist myoneural interface (AMI), connects muscle remnants from the shin and the calf to allow near-natural movement for those using an advanced ...

Johnny Matheny lost his arm to cancer in 2005, and in December, he was selected to test out a new prosthetic arm over the next year. According to news website Quartz, the new technology is allowing ...

MEDFORD TWP., New Jersey -- Sammy Salvano, 14, engineered a prosthetic hand for his friend, Ewan Kirby. Ewan is missing most of the fingers on one of his hands, so Sammy worked all summer on his ...

Most bionic limbs are controlled by electrical signals generated by muscles moving near the attachment site. But when an arm is amputated above the elbow, the remaining muscles aren't enough to ...