I have a love-hate relationship with my AFO’s — my ankle foot orthosis or leg braces. But they’ve improved my life so much. Before I had braces, I used a wheelchair. There were so many ...

Pain in the back (posterior) portion of the knee is relatively common. Many things could be to blame, whether it’s constant soreness in the area or simply knee pain when extending the leg. Tendon ...

It also covers medically necessary ankle-foot orthoses and knee-ankle-foot orthoses. An orthosis is an external device, such as a brace or splint, that supports a body part or function.

As detailed in a paper published on September 9 in Nature Communications, the team’s new hydraulically amplified, self-healing, electrostatic actuators (HASELs) allow a prototype “leg” to ...

The robotic leg jumps across different terrains. Thomas Buchner / ETH Zurich and Toshihiko Fukushima / Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems The majority of the current walking robots are ...

Hokato Hotozhe Sema's journey from losing his leg in a 2002 blast to winning a bronze medal in the men's F57 shot put at the Paralympics is inspiring. Supported by the Army Paralympic Node and ...