Objective This study aims to evaluate relationships between self-reported fine motor ability and quality of life (assessed by life satisfaction and life problems) from people with spinal cord injury ...

Athletic trainers, physical therapists, physical therapy assistants, physicians, students and other healthcare professionals attended this year's symposium, which focused on prevention strategies and ...

The proposal builds on Connecticut’s 2018 prosthetics parity law, Public Act 18-69, which requires state-regulated health plans to cover prosthetic limbs at least equivalent to Medicare coverage and ...

For nearly three decades, patient Vu Hong Phong has lived with a severe left-arm disability resulting from a complex elbow injury sustained in his youth. The condition progressively worsened over time ...

Breakthrough device promises a new era of natural, intuitive and reliable physical interaction for upper limb amputees ...

With a wrench in hand, Andrea Modica makes a final adjustment to the gleaming metallic joint on the prosthetic leg strapped to his left thigh. He stands and walks a few steps along the neon-lit ...

For as long as he can remember, Timothy Duerr ’17 has been fascinated with a scientific feature of salamanders. Not only can the amphibians regenerate their amputated limbs, but they know exactly what ...

Phantom limb pain affects nearly 40 percent of amputees, often persisting despite medications and therapy. Reconstructive surgeon Shaun Mendenhall, MD, outlines why surgical techniques are now ...

During limb salvage surgery, surgeons try to save as much of your limb as possible instead of removing the entire limb. It’s used to treat tumors in your arms or legs. Limb salvage surgery, also ...

Some ants chomp off the infected limbs of nestmates to boost their chances of survival, making them the only recorded non-human animals to perform amputations to save another’s life. We already knew ...

A mind-controlled prosthetic feels more like a part of the wearer’s body and promises to make walking easier. When someone loses part of a leg, a prosthetic can make it easier to get around. But most ...

Abstract: Upper-limb position is one of the most critical factors that degrade sEMG-based motion recognition accuracy. Therefore, we propose an upper-limb position-robust motion recognition with ...