Ross Holland discovered a unique way to wear his prosthetic legs by turning the feet backward. "It's so much more comfortable. It's so much easier," said Holland, a 34-year-old. "This kind of fluke ...

A commercial robotic leg could potentially benefit both higher- and lower-mobility amputees, University of Michigan roboticists have shown for the first time. The leg provided the largest gains when ...

With two new legs to stand on, Dymtro Dimakrasnovskye put all his effort into making a single step. “The most difficult ever for me was to make that first step,” the 24-year-old, double-leg amputee ...

# A YEAR after the public rallied around Ezekiel Miller following his story of an infection that led to the amputation of ...

Kaden Bagley was a new amputee and uncertain about life’s sudden realities until his waiting room door opened and his perspective changed. Brian Douglas, walking in on a pair of prosthetic legs, ...

Wivine Kavira Mukata was in the kitchen preparing plantains and fish soup for her family on the day in February 2014 when a bomb tore through her home in Beni, in eastern Congo’s war-hit North Kivu ...