A new motor-powered, microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knee called 'Power Knee' was introduced by Össur. Power Knee aims to help people who have limb differences or above-knee amputations have the ...

Proteor SAS is launching the Synsys bionic leg, a sensor-equipped microprocessor-controlled knee-ankle-foot prosthetic leg for above-the-knee amputees. This new generation prosthesis coordinates knee ...

MANCHESTER-- Within a year or so, Jack Daly's left knee should work about as well as the knee of most 50 year olds, as long as he remembers to keep it charged. Daly, a truck driver who lost both his ...

Irvine-based prosthetic device maker Free-dom Innovations LLC has a new owner, as well as plans to increase its sales and research and development staffs and make a push for international expansion.

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

Evelyn Bennett recently did something she had not done since November – she walked the aisles of a Wal-Mart with nothing but a shopping cart.

You probably don’t want to lose a leg, but if you have to there are many options now that were unthinkable not long ago. That is, if you can afford them. A microprocessor knee — a prosthetic with some ...

When Michael Adams was researching health insurance options in 2023, he had one very specific requirement: coverage for prosthetic limbs. Adams, 51, lost his right leg to cancer 40 years ago, and he ...

This is a KFF Health News story. When Michael Adams was researching health insurance options in 2023, he had one very specific requirement: coverage for prosthetic limbs. Adams, 51, lost his right leg ...

When Michael Adams was researching health insurance options in 2023, he had one very specific requirement: coverage for prosthetic limbs. Adams, 51, lost his right leg to cancer 40 years ago and he ...