Researchers from Johns Hopkins and Drexel universities say that adding haptics—an artificial sense of touch—to upper limb prostheses reduces the mental effort required to operate the device, bringing ...

We report the use of a bone-anchored, self-contained robotic arm with both sensory and motor components over 3 to 7 years in four patients after transhumeral amputation. The implant allowed for ...

On April 13, 2004, when I was 24, I was serving in the military over in Iraq. I was on a routine convoy through central Baghdad when my Humvee was struck by a roadside bomb. It caused the vehicle to ...

You can wear your prosthetic eye during your everyday activities, including showers, and during sports like skiing and swimming. You can still cry while wearing a prosthetic eye, since your eyes make ...

RHA prostheses that replace your radial head are inserted directly into the remaining radius bone, and they sometimes loosen over time. A radial head arthroplasty (RHA) is a procedure to replace the ...