Retired Army Sgt. Max Ramsey, 42, recently traded his X2 microprocessor knee for the latest innovation in prosthetics at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC). The X3 waterproof and ...

More than two million Americans have lost a limb and it’s estimated there are 185,000 amputations every year. Now new technology in prosthetics is helping many amputees move forward. Robert Wright has ...

A new motor-powered, microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knee called 'Power Knee' was introduced by Össur. Power Knee aims to help people who have limb differences or above-knee amputations have the ...

Irvine-based prosthetic device maker Free-dom Innovations LLC has a new owner, as well as plans to increase its sales and research and development staffs and make a push for international expansion.

MANCHESTER-- Within a year or so, Jack Daly's left knee should work about as well as the knee of most 50 year olds, as long as he remembers to keep it charged. Daly, a truck driver who lost both his ...

You probably don’t want to lose a leg, but if you have to there are many options now that were unthinkable not long ago. That is, if you can afford them. A microprocessor knee — a prosthetic with some ...

RALEIGH, N.C. - Robert Wright has kept his sense of humor, despite losing his left leg to melanoma in 2018, but it wasn't always this way. "Lying in the hospital bed, getting ready for amputation, I ...

RALEIGH, N.C. – Robert Wright has kept his sense of humor despite losing his left leg to melanoma in 2018, but it wasn't always this way. "Lying in the hospital bed, getting ready for amputation, I ...