Tag: Transportation & Mobility

The Cheetah prosthetic running blade, developed by Össur, Reykjavik, Iceland, is featured in an exhibition at the John F. Kennedy ...

Photograph courtesy of R.J. Hartbeck. Össur, Reykjavik, Iceland, announced that Alexander Schwartz, a bilateral amputee who was born with fibular ...

Americans extol price shopping for healthcare, yet few actually do it when given the means to, according to the findings ...

The Angel City Games, an adaptive sports festival in the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area, held its third annual event ...

World and regional records held by athletes competing in the T43/F43 (bilateral below the knee lower limb amputations) and T42/F42 ...

Despite growing data that more advanced technology reduces falls and improves physical capabilities among patients with transfemoral amputations, patients with ...

Since 9/11, more than 2 million men and women have deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflict zones as part ...

On June 28, Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) introduced two bills to improve O&P care for service ...

Each year, hundreds of people with lower-limb loss participate in the Össur Running & Mobility Clinics presented across the United ...

Remember the simple joy of zipping around the yard in a toy car? Every kid should have that experience, and ...

People diagnosed with cancer gained 3.34 million years of life thanks to cancer clinical trials run by SWOG and supported ...

In a statement on May 23 following the release of the White House's proposed budget, AARP Executive Vice President Nancy ...

The annual Angel City Games will be held June 22-25 on the campus of the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA). ...

Photograph courtesy of Texas A&M College of Engineering. A research team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M ...

Simple calf muscle stretching may reduce leg pain when walking and increase blood flow for people with peripheral artery disease ...

Eric M. Miller, a sophomore mechanical engineering major at Pennsylvania State (Penn State) Berks qualified for the American Society of ...

Touch is normally active, resulting from self-motion. Merkel afferents (top right, green and magenta) "fired" action potentials (white) during both ...

Self-efficacy refers to a personal judgment about being able to succeed in reaching a desired outcome. Prosthetic rehabilitation is primarily ...

Current stiffness and height recommendations of running-specific prostheses aim to mitigate kinematic asymmetries for athletes with unilateral transtibial amputations. However, ...

Driving is an example of when the patients benefit from osseoperception. Photograph by Susanne Lindholm, courtesy of Chalmers. A team ...

Penta Group Vietnam team members meet with a patient. Photograph courtesy of Penta Group Vietnam and YEI. A team developing ...

Dahiya poses with a prosthetic hand covered in the solar-powered electronic skin. Photograph courtesy of the University of Glasgow. Engineers ...

Crowdfunding campaigns to pay for medical costs have become a booming industry in recent years, with sites like GoFundMe raising ...

Image by Iowa State University. If your New Year's resolution was to exercise more in 2017, chances are you've already ...

Participants are now being enrolled in clinical trials for the final tests on an artificial pancreas developed by the University ...

Photograph of textile actuators manufacturing, courtesy of the study authors and Science Advances. Researchers at Linköping University and the University ...

(Left to right) Aggie Innovators Natalia Perez, Abdiel Jimenez, and Arturo Dominguez developed a wheelchair for Kita and his owner ...

Before finalizing the prescription of new lower-limb prosthetic device, a clinician often has the patient try the device while he ...

Photograph of LUKE Arms courtesy of DARPA. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has provided first production versions of ...

Shawn Michels. Image courtesy of Jeff Miller/UW-Madison Injecting insulin takes two hands. One hand holds the insulin injector. The other ...

Ewing takes his first steps with a prosthesis. Photograph courtesy of Brigham and Women's Hospital, Communications and Public Affairs. Earlier ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) has released a special alert providing an analysis of ...

Human motion biomechanics researchers at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) have been awarded a three-year, $513,000 grant by the ...

Rough, uneven, and soft surfaces can present problems for wheelchair users who want to venture beyond the usual routine.

Losing one or both legs, regardless of amputation level, will certainly disrupt your life and set you on a different ...

A prototype of a smart sock that can add sensation to a lower-limb prosthesis was presented at the Association for ...

A participant prepares for instruction. Photograph courtesy of OPAF. Rehab Systems Orthotic and Prosthetic Technologies, Boise and Twin Falls, Idaho, ...

Aimee Copeland speaks to faculty and staff at UWG. Image courtesy of UWG. When asked whether she would go back ...

Össur, Reykjavik, Iceland, announced that ten-year-old Joel "Diego" Mercado is the winner of its second #MyWinningMoment online contest that celebrates ...

Numerous studies have shown that children with different physical, cognitive, emotional, or learning abilities than their peers are at an ...

Donna Parks had a sensation of heaviness in her legs for a couple of years-then sharp, stabbing pains began. A ...

UT Dallas scientists produced the fibers in this woven textile by highly twisting nylon sewing thread to produce coiled artificial ...

The published literature describes mobility problems people may experience after undergoing lower-limb amputations, yet there have been few published accounts ...

Research by Maria Woodward, MD, examines patient attitudes about telemedicine and remote eye exams. Image courtesy of U-M Kellogg Eye ...

The Amputee Coalition has released a white paper, "Roadmap for Stimulating Limb Loss Research and Improving Care: Recommendations From the ...

A study describing the characteristics of two commercially available running-specific prosthetic feet concluded that the specific responsive features of the ...

Laura Donlon. Image courtesy of Beaumont Health. According to the National Institutes of Health, 80 percent of adults will experience ...

A bioengineering doctoral student in the ASU Neural Engineering Lab demonstrates how patients will use the Oculus Rift headset to ...

Group that climbed Cayambe in 2015. Image courtesy of ROMP. On July 24-25, Karl Egloff, an elite athlete and one ...

Össur, Reykjavik, Iceland, announced that the winner of its #MyWinningMoment online photo and video contest celebrating the mobility of people ...