Tag: Transportation & Mobility

Image courtesy of Angel City Games/Tiffany J Photography.> The 2nd Annual Angel City Games will be held July 7-10 at ...

CAF grantee Daniel Stoner mountain biking with his prosthetic leg. Image courtesy of Daniel Stoner. The Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF) ...

Heather Carter runs laps around an indoor track. Image by Sean Kimmons, Air Force News Service. After a sprint around ...

Hugh Herr, PhD, associate professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been given ...

A First Swing particant addresses the ball. Photograph courtesy of OPAF and the First Clinics. Students from the University of ...

A side-by-side comparison of the prosthetic and a natural foot in stiletto heel shoes. Photograph courtesy of the Johns Hopkins ...

Össur, Reykjavik, Iceland, has launched an online contest that encourages adults with lower-limb loss to share their stories via photo ...

Photograph of a First Things First participant courtesy of Robin Burton. OPAF recently introduced the newest member of the First ...

The Hanger Charitable Foundation, Austin, Texas, completed its first round of 2016 grants by awarding $54,000 to eight nonprofit organizations. ...

Safety-net clinics are likely to continue to play a critical role in meeting the needs of insured minority and low-income ...

The Amputee Coalition has declared April as Limb Loss Awareness Month in order to increase awareness about people living with ...

Parks (far right) is thankful for the opportunity to act as a mentor at Fort Bliss. U.S. Army photo by ...

Neuroscientists at Duke Health, Durham, North Carolina, have developed a brain-machine interface (BMI) that allows primates to use only their ...

About 80 percent of diabetes-related lower-limb amputations are preceded by a foot ulcer. This progression from foot ulcer to amputation ...

HealthSouth Valley of the Sun Rehabilitation Hospital is expanding the work it does for amputee patients into the community. The ...

Individuals with transfemoral amputations often have difficulty descending sloped surfaces due to increased lower-limb range of motion and torque requirements. ...

Image courtesy of UCLA. In a study published in Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface, an unobtrusive patch on the ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has fined United Airlines $2.75 million for violating the DOT rules protecting air travelers ...

The insulin-secreting cells of people with type 1 diabetes are destroyed by their immune systems and daily insulin injections are ...

Walking down slopes and over uneven terrain is problematic for people with unilateral transtibial amputations. Accordingly, prosthetic ankle devices have ...

Prior studies have identified age as a factor in determining an individual's likelihood of receiving a prosthesis following a lower-limb ...

The American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association (AOPA) announced the winners of its Mobility Saves testimonial contest. Jeff Lewis of Mesa, ...

Research from the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) could soon help an estimated 2 million people in America living ...

Electrical Current Kills 99.99 Percent of Bugs Washington State University (WSU) researchers have discovered how electrical stimulation works for the ...

Marseilles and her friend and running partner, Molly Karl. Photograph courtesy of Össur. On October 11, Jami Marseilles became the ...

November is National Family Caregivers Month, and AARP is launching a national campaign to bring awareness to the important role ...

Image courtesy of CAF. La Jolla Cove in San Diego hosted more than 5,000 supporters of the Challenged Athletes Foundation ...

New software that can be incorporated into powered, lower-lower limb prosthetic devices to automatically tune the amount of power a ...

The United States Surgeon General has issued a call to action to address major public health challenges such as heart ...

From left, Richey and Zucker-Levin are pictured with a key focus of their research: the MPF component and a completed ...

A 28-year-old man who has had paralysis for more than ten years due to a spinal cord injury has been ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model, which will test the ...

A nerve-like assemblage created by protein nanomotors acting on polymer filaments at Sandia National Laboratories. Image courtesy of Sandia National ...

The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) issued the following press statement about the public comment ...

Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) have received a five-year, $3.5 million grant funded by the National ...

Brain-controlled prostheses sample a few hundred neurons to estimate motor commands that involve millions of neurons, so tiny sampling errors ...

Future generations of prostheses could include sensors that send signals back to the brain so amputees can feel with their ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized use of the first bone-anchored prosthesis marketed in the United States ...

Alison Phillips. Photograph by Christopher Gannon, ISU. Developing any habit-good or bad-starts with a routine, and exercise is no exception. ...

"I can put my foot down and my ankle can roll," said test patient Derrick Stone. "If I inadvertently step ...

A team of researchers from Bournemouth University (BU), Poole, England, have been assessing the impact of lower-limb prostheses on competitive ...

The Dralla Foundation, a nonprofit organization established in 2011 by Allard USA, Rockaway, New Jersey, announced the 2015 grants it ...

Karpowicz lost his leg when he was 27 years old. Now 67, he is participating in a clinical trial with ...

More than 600 veterans are expected to compete in this year's National Veterans Wheelchair Games, scheduled for June 21-26 in ...

The profile of the family caregiver in America is changing as the population ages, according to a new research study ...

Six sensors are attached to the sole of the prosthesis to provide nerve stimulation on the residual limb. Photograph courtesy ...

Morgan, left, and a participant demonstrate a safety technique. Photograph courtesy of OPAF. OPAF launched First Safeguard on April 25 ...

Computer simulation screenshot. Courtesy of the University of Idaho. Craig McGowan, PhD, an assistant professor of biological sciences at the ...

Master Sgt. Lyle Babcock. Photograph by Sgt. 1st Class Mark Hanson/Kansas National Guard Visual Information. Although post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ...

Sorto uses the robotic arm to make a smoothie. Photograph by Spencer Kellis, courtesy of Caltech. Erik Sorto, who is ...