Lower limb amputation is a life‐altering surgical intervention, most commonly necessitated by vascular complications, trauma or malignancy. The subsequent rehabilitation process is critical in ...

Weight-bearing activity appears tied to incident knee osteoarthritis (OA) in people who have low levels of lower-limb muscle mass, according to a study published online April 30 in JAMA Network Open.

Some animals can regrow lost body parts. Salamanders and frog tadpoles can rebuild entire limbs after amputation. Mammals ...

In a recent study published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, researchers from the United States of America (USA) used commercially available electrodes for closed-loop spinal cord stimulation (SCS) ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results showed high to very high relative reliability among patients. Interrater reliability had wider value ...

Phantom limb pain affects nearly 40 percent of amputees, often persisting despite medications and therapy. Reconstructive surgeon Shaun Mendenhall, MD, outlines why surgical techniques are now ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team examined whether faster lower-limb motion in soccer players was accompanied by greater lumbopelvic motion.

Learn how testing different environmental conditions may unlock mammals’ potential to regrow limbs and what it means for ...

Most war amputees experience steady improvements in pain, psychological symptoms and quality of life over time, according to ...

Thanks to a neural interface, people can move this bionic limb naturally—just by thinking about it. When someone loses part of a leg, a prosthetic can make it easier to get around. But most ...