Click Medical announces the following Limb Loss Awareness Month promotion: For every RevoFit and RevoLock prosthetics kit sold during the month of April, Click Medical will donate $1 to the global non-profit Range of Motion Project (ROMP).
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.
SteeperUSA has shipped reportedly its first Espire Elbow, following Steeper Group’s recent announcement as the exclusive manufacturers of the prosthetic elbow range, the San Antonio-based company shares in a media release.
People born without upper limbs who use their feet to reach for an item engage the same area in the brain that people with hands use to reach for something. This finding could offer further insights into the improvement of limb prostheses, Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists suggest, in PNAS.
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In a move to help wounded veterans ease or eliminate pain related to the loss of arms or legs, the Department of Defense awarded Chicago-based Coapt a $2.3 million grant to develop virtual reality and hardware-based therapies.
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Össur, a provider of prosthetic and orthopaedic technologies, launches store.ossur.com, a new online option that enables consumers in the US to directly purchase the company’s Formfit and CTi lines of bracing solutions.
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Braskem, a producer of polyolefins producer and biopolymers, announces the launch of the Braskem e-NABLE Chapter, allowing the company’s Pittsburgh Innovation & Technology Center to 3D print polypropylene (PP) based prosthetic upper limb devices for those in need.
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Proteor USA LLC has signed an agreement with Ottobock to acquire a significant portion of the lower limb prosthetics portfolio of Freedom Innovations, the company announces.
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Individuals who received an early prosthesis, within 3 months following a lower limb amputation, were 48% less likely to use the emergency department compared to those who did not receive a prosthesis, according to results from the second IMPACT study conducted by Hanger Inc.
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Reportedly the first-ever Consensus Document offers recommended approaches for treating knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients based on their age and activity level. A global panel of more than 40 experts in various orthopaedic disciplines compiled the document.
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Hanger Inc has appointed Mark M. Jones, MD, to its Board of Directors, increasing the size of the Board to ten members, effective immediately, it announces in a media release.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has authorized Myomo Inc to be a Medicare Provider.
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UC San Francisco Weill Institute for Neurosciences researchers working toward a brain-controlled prosthetic limb suggest that machine learning techniques helped an individual with paralysis learn to control a computer cursor using their brain activity without requiring extensive daily retraining.
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RxFunction Inc, a provider of Walkasins, is teaming with Liberating Technologies Inc (LTI) to develop a system incorporating Walkasins neuroprosthetic technology into artificial limbs.
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Myomo Inc announces additional intellectual property protection with the issuance of new patents in the US and Europe related to MyoPro, its wearable robotic brace designed for those with arm and hand paralysis.
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Despite “stoma” problems, a bone-anchored leg prosthesis has lasting benefits in terms of daily functioning, mobility and quality of life, according to researchers from Radboud University Medical Center.
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The current generation of neural implants record enormous amounts of neural activity, then transmit these brain signals through wires to a computer. But, so far, when researchers have tried to create wireless brain-computer interfaces to do this, it took so much power to transmit the data that the implants generated too much heat to be safe for the patient. Stanford researchers suggest how to solve his problem — and thus cut the wires.
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A device that uses alternating magnetic fields to treat prosthetic joint infections (PJI) on metallic knee implants has received Breakthrough Device designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), according to Solenic Medical Inc, its developer, in a media release.
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