More than 2 million Americans have lost a limb, and it's estimated there are 185,000 amputations every year. New technology in prosthetics is helping many amputees move forward. Robert Wright has kept ...

Prosthetics and orthotics represent a dynamic field that bridges engineering innovation and clinical rehabilitation. In prosthetics, technological advancements—from digital 3D modelling and additive ...

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 ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Global Advanced Prosthetics and Exoskeletons Market: Focus on Application, Targeted Limb, End-User, Competitive Landscape - Analysis and Forecast, 2019-2024" report has ...

Next generation prosthetics close to giving men and women "super powers." April 21, 2009 — -- Technology usually changes the way we do things. We communicate and think differently because of ...

Accidents, combat injuries, birth defects, and disease may result in the loss of limbs or orthopedic impairment. Patients will turn to Orthotists and Prosthetists to design and fabricate devices such ...

A: I worked for 10 years as a secretary in the Prosthetics/Orthotics department at Shriners Hospital and fell in love with the field....and the patients we served. My husband, whom I met while I was ...

Johnny Matheny, who lost his arm to cancer in 2008, is a pioneer of advanced arm prosthetics. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien profiles him as part of a larger series on the new technology powering ...

From the moment a patient enters the door at Valley Prosthetics and Orthotics, the full staff works to make the experience a positive one. From the moment a patient enters the door at Valley ...