For people who spend every day walking around like it’s nothing, it can be easy to forget that walking is actually incredibly hard. There are dozens of minute leg and foot movements involved in taking ...

Over the span of a year, 17-year-old Ashley Kimbel went from being a regular teen at Grissom High School in Alabama to a hero for a retired Marine. When the budding engineer met Kendall Bane, a ...

A team of Johns Hopkins University students, working with a Johns Hopkins physician and outside prosthetics experts, has developed an early version of a potential solution. Called the "Prominence," it ...

March 2, 2006 German scientists have developed a new type of prosthetic foot that imitates the natural walking motion so convincingly that you have to take a second look to realize its user is wearing ...

SAN FRANCISCO & MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--UNYQ Inc., a leader in the field of 3D-printed prosthetic wears, is introducing the new UNYQ FOOT, an innovative approach to making prosthetic feet for ...

Sarah Reinertsen didn’t start running until after she lost her left leg above the knee. She’s been at it for 23 years, which makes her an expert on prosthetic limbs. You name it and she’s probably run ...