Alex Parra went viral for turning his prosthetic leg into a cat scratching post, giving his feline friend hilariously creative enrichment.

Frech was born with a congenital limb difference, meaning he was born without most of his left leg and all but one finger on ...

Content creator and amputee Alex Parra posted a video about how he made a cat-scratcher prosthesis that his adorable pet could use. Here's how he made it and how the internet responded to the ...

Advances such as telemedicine and the use of wireless devices in hospitals have become an accepted part of medical technology, but the notion of replacing limbs with computer-powered devices seems ...

Sensory feedback is important for amputees to be able to explore and interact with their environment. Now, researchers have developed a device that allows amputees to sense and respond to temperature ...

Ben Hogan, a prosthetist, invented “Project Bike Leg” to help amputees in developing nations who lack access to prosthetics.

In 2018, Johnny Matheny became the first person to take home the world's most advanced Modular Prosthetic Limb—developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory—for a yearlong opportunity to ...

A recent case study from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill demonstrates that, with training, neural control of a powered prosthetic ankle can restore ...

NEWTON, Mass. — She was orphaned during Rwanda’s genocide and lost much of one of her legs to childhood cancer, but Claudine Humure has dreams of giving back to her once war-torn homeland. First, ...

Prosthetic arms and hands often stop working when wearers start to sweat. A New Zealand team of engineers and assistive ...