October 27, 2015 Standing paraplegic patient kicks ball to open World Cup A standing paraplegic man kicked the first soccer ball of the World Cup in Sao Paulo on Thursday, a triumphant moment for a research project aiming to give patients who have lost feeling in their legs the ability to walk again.
October 26, 2015 Artificial cartilage implants may reduce need for knee replacement surgery Every 45 seconds, a patient in the U.S. undergoes knee replacement surgery— and it’s only getting worse. By 2030, that number is expected to jump nearly 400 percent to 3.5 million surgeries a year. But soon, there may be another option.
October 26, 2015 Former college wrestler aims to boost concussion prevention with clip-on device A former collegiate wrestler is looking to pin a dangerous opponent familiar to young athletes everywhere: concussions.
October 26, 2015 Georgia girl's ankle, foot reattached backward to create new knee after cancer diagnosis A Georgia sixth-grader who was diagnosed with osteosarcoma and elected to undergo a radical procedure that would require her ankle and foot to be reattached backward is determined to run again.
October 26, 2015 3-D print technology provides 'robohand' to 7-year-old girl Seven-year-old Faith Lennox never thought much about putting a prosthetic limb where her missing left hand had once been.
October 24, 2015 Researchers propose 'Breathalyzer' concussion test British researchers recently unveiled a proposal for a Breathalyzer test they say may lead to quicker concussion detection in athletes.
October 24, 2015 Rural clinics increasingly turn to telemedicine Fifty years in farming had given Tom Soukup a few brushes with his own mortality, but after a cow pinned him against a wall, death felt closer than ever. He lay on the muddy ground and began to pray, every gasp feeling like a stab to the chest.
October 24, 2015 'Infinite Socket' device offers amputees customized, comfortable approach to prosthetics Despite the many technological advances in the field of prosthetics, amputees still face an obstacle when it comes to the comfort of the socket, or the actual molded cup that meets the artificial lower limb.
October 24, 2015 Toddler born without a tibia thriving after receiving prosthetic leg Two days after their son’s birth, Michael and Sally Lynick faced a tough choice: have doctors amputate little Vincent’s leg or let the boy grow up without a tibia, Kare 11 reported.
October 24, 2015 Three men first to get reconstructed bionic hands after amputation Three Austrians have replaced injured hands with bionic ones that they can control using nerves and muscles transplanted into their arms from their legs.
