When Joseph Alvarado showed up to a mobility clinic at Rice University, the 15-year-old went in expecting to learn tips on how to maneuver with his prosthetic leg. What he didn’t expect was receiving ...
Arizona State University researchers have developed a prosthetic device that literally puts the spring back into an amputee's step. The ASU scientists have developed and refined SPARKy (for spring ...
Researchers have proposed new standards into the decades-old prosthetic donations market, improving the quality of lower limb prosthetic feet by two-thirds—a major quality of life boost for recipients ...