News articles tagged with 'prosthetic'
New study further disputes notion that amputee runners gain advantage from protheses
— 5 Nov 2009 13:24 | HealthA study by six researchers, including a University of Colorado at Boulder associate professor and his former doctoral student, shows that amputees who use running-specific prosthetic... — full story
URI researcher trips amputees in effort to develop improved prosthetic legs
— 16 Sep 2009 11:04 | HealthAgain and again, 71-year-old Marjorie Brasier walked on the treadmill using an instrumented prosthetic leg, and again and again she tripped or slipped. Sometimes she recovered on her... — full story
Practice makes perfect - motor memory possible for neuroprosthetic control
— 21 Jul 2009 11:40 | Biology'Practice makes perfect' is the maxim drummed into students struggling to learn a new motor skill - be it riding a bike or developing a killer backhand in tennis. In order to become... — full story
Reading the brain without poking it
— 29 Jun 2009 10:36 | HealthExperimental devices that read brain signals have helped paralysed people use computers and may let amputees control bionic limbs. But existing devices use tiny electrodes that poke... — full story
Knee replacements: Pinpointing the cause of infection
— 15 Jun 2009 20:59 | HealthA new study reveals that PET scans accurately detect infections in prosthetic knee joints more than 90 percent of the time, according to researchers at the SNM's 56th Annual Meeting.... — full story
Silicone ear looks just like the real thing
— 21 Mar 2009 17:10 | HealthTo look at Matthew Houdek, you could never tell he was born with virtually no left ear. A surgery at Loyola University Health System made it possible for Houdek to be fitted with a... — full story
New surgical technique shows promise for improving function of artificial arms
— 11 Feb 2009 10:00 | HealthA surgical technique known as targeted muscle reinnervation appears to enable patients with arm amputations to have improved control of functions with an artificial arm, according to... — full story
Sports technology for para-athletes: Closing the gap
— 30 Jan 2009 19:15 | HealthThis issue of Sports Technology, published by Wiley-Blackwell, spotlights recent developments that seek to close the gap between able-bodied athletes and para-athletes, with two published... — full story
Amputees can experience prosthetic hand as their own
— 11 Dec 2008 16:07 | HealthScientists at Karolinska Institutet and Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in inducing people with an amputated arm to experience a prosthetic rubber hand as belonging to their... — full story
Prosthetic vein valve designed to improve blood flow
— 15 Sep 2008 18:21 | HealthEngineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a prosthetic vein valve to help improve the lives of those suffering from a condition known as chronic venous insufficiency.... — full story