Researchers from Florida Atlantic University's College of Engineering and Computer Science and collaborators are aiming to enable a more natural-feeling prosthetic hand interface by incorporating stretchable tactile sensors using liquid metal and machine learning.
Hanger provides a recap of Hanger LIVE 2021, its annual education conference. Held virtually for the first time on February 4-5, the conference gathered its 4,900 employees as well as 310 exhibitors for keynote addresses, award presentations, education, and more.
The Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansion appears to have substantial positive effects on the care of racial and ethnic minorities with diabetic foot ulcerations (DFUs).
XRHealth, formerly known as VRHealth, has partnered with the VA St Louis Healthcare System to provide VR therapy to Veterans, it reports in a media release.
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Veteran rehab professionals discuss technologies that power up their water-based programs to help patients increase functional skills and fitness, in the November/December 2019 issue of Rehab Management.
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Standard diagnostic methods are not adequate to identify prosthetic joint infections (PJIs) in patients with rheumatic diseases, according to a new study by researchers from Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), presented recently at the American College of Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Professionals annual meeting in Atlanta.
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VitalFitSR, developed by dermatologist Paul B. Dean, MD, and others, is formulated to address the skin issues faced by individuals with limb loss and high-risk skin issues.
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A study in Science Translational Medicine documents how scientists were able to successfully characterize and implement bionic leg technology in three amputees to help them merge with their bionic prosthetic legs as they climb over various obstacles without having to look.
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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) scientists are developing new approaches for improved control of robotic hands — in particular for amputees — that combines individual finger control and automation for improved grasping and manipulation.
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Sterling, a rope and life-safety equipment company, announces the release of Adaptive, a documentary that depicts an all-adaptive attempt to climb the remote Lotus Flower Tower in Canada’s Cirque of the Unclimbables.
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Using your feet like hands can cause organized “hand-like” maps of the toes in the brain, suggests a study of two professional foot painters led by the Plasticity Lab at University College London.
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Encompass Health Corp announces the opening of its 133rd inpatient rehabilitation hospital, Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Katy.
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An international team of researchers has developed an interface to connect a leg prosthesis with the residual nerves present in the user’s thigh, thus providing sensory feedback to help control the user’s muscles, help reduce the user’s physical and mental strain while walking, and help reduce phantom limb pain.
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As part of peripheral artery disease (PAD) month in September, the Society for Vascular Surgery reminds smokers about the effects the habit can have on their ability to stand on their own two feet.
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Purdue University researchers have developed an electronic glove, or e-glove, that can be worn over a prosthetic hand to provide humanlike softness, warmth, appearance and sensory perception, such as the ability to sense pressure, temperature and hydration.
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A new scientific statement from the American Heart Association addresses non-invasive techniques and devices for assessing blood flow and other diagnostic considerations for people with critical limb ischemia.
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People of any age born without a hand already have the functionality needed to control a prosthetic device using only their mind, according to a trio of hand surgeons based in Charlotte, NC.
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A research team from Vanderbilt University aims to design better prosthetics by studying how non-amputees recover from stumbles. A study describing their work to capture the stumble response was published recently in the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation.
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