For women, the ability to wear a variety of shoes, including high heels, is often a choice that is taken for granted unless you are a woman with limb loss. This is why researchers at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center have launched a groundbreaking national study to...
PSYONIC Pitches to the Sharks on ABC’s Shark Tank
Calling all Shark Tank fans! PSYONIC, the company behind the Ability Hand, will seek to secure an investment on the ABC hit reality show. Watch PSYONIC CEO Aadeel Akhtar and Ability Hand user Sgt. Garrett Anderson pitch the sharks on the upcoming episode airing this...
Utah Bionic Leg Named on TIME’S List of the Best Inventions of 2023
Reprinted with permission from the John and Marcia Price College of Engineering, The University of Utah TIME’s annual list of the Best Inventions features 200 extraordinary innovations with the capacity to change people’s lives. To compile the list, TIME’s editors...
New Exhibition Explores the Evolution of Prosthetic Technology
From 3D-printed prosthetics to microprocessor-controlled knees, today’s prosthetic technology allows for a variety of choices and growing. If you are interested in learning more about the history of prosthetic design, the National WWI Museum and Memorial has recently...
Vessl Prosthetics Creates Innovative Socket Solution
One of the most common concerns for amputees is poor socket fit, and this is a problem Sydney Robinson and her team are trying to solve with their startup Vessl Prosthetics. A person’s residual limb can shrink inside the socket throughout the day, and this causes...
Johns Hopkins Engineering Students Develop Gaming Prostheses for Amputees
This article is reprinted with permission from Johns Hopkins University and its news website, the Hub. Aubrey Morse/Feb. 6 A small group of Johns Hopkins University undergraduates were introduced to the field of upper-limb prosthesis during an Intersession course...
Students Design Prosthetic Hand for Schoolmate
Students in the Engineering Design and Development course at Hendersonville High School in Tennessee did not have to look far for a way to put what they were learning to use in the real world. The students developed and produced a prosthetic hand for sophomore Sergio...
Swimmer Gets a Boost From Prosthetic Hand Device
A 7-year-old Canadian boy is leaving other swimmers in his wake with help from a new prosthetic hand device—and Pikachu. In an article posted Dec. 20, HighRiverOnline tells the story of Frank Ulloa of Okotoks, Alberta, who was born with a partial amputation of his...
Making Prosthetics More Lifelike
This article, written by Amy Quinton was originally published by the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) and is reprinted with permission. Scientists and Surgeons Team Up to Make Life Easier for Amputees David Brockman, a retired CalFire captain and avid...
Amputee First to Receive BIPOC Inventors Grant
Nearly 10 years spent working to ensure prosthetic limbs are accessible to and inclusive of underrepresented communities have landed a Chicago woman a grant she intends to use to develop a bike adapter for amputees. AfroTech tells the story of Adero Knott, whose AK...