Integrum Earns Spot on Fast Company Innovative Companies List
OPRA Implant System provider Integrum was named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies list for 2023.
OPRA Implant System provider Integrum was named to Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies list for 2023.
Xtremity secures $8.1M in Series B3 funding to help bring its first product, the XtremityTT transtibial prosthetic socket, to market.
Researchers have developed a technology that allows amputees to move a robotic arm using their brain signals instead of their muscles.
Researchers design first-of-its-kind multichannel soft robotic armband that conveys artificial sensations of touch, they explain in Scientific Reports.
Read MoreÖssur launches the new Power Knee, reportedly the world’s first actively powered microprocessor prosthetic knee for people with above-knee amputation or limb difference.
Read MoreX-Collection prosthetic covers are now available for Ottobock C-Leg4 and 3R80 models. More options are coming later in the year, UNYQ reports.
Read MoreThe Amarillo VA Health Care System unveiled its Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Medicine Clinic recently at the Thomas E. Creek VA Medical Center, myhighplains.com reports.
Read MoreBiomedical scale-up Adapttech has licensed the Prosthetic Limb Users Survey of Mobility (PLUS-M) from the University of Washington, and Amputee Mobility Predictors (AMPPro / AMPnoPro) from Advanced Rehabilitation Therapy to incorporate into future product designs and patient outcome models, it announces.
Read MoreA novel surgery provides better muscle control, improved sensory feedback and less limb pain, UC Davis Health reports.
Read MoreSurgeons discuss osseointegration, a new surgical procedure that aims to help restore mobility and reduce pain and tissue breakdown among people with lower-limb amputations.
Read MoreÖssur congratulates Team Össur member Marko Cheseto Lemtukei for setting another new World Record in the Marathon for bilateral amputee athletes as he completed the 2021 New York Marathon in 2:35:55.
Read MorePeople with a transplanted hand demonstrate a more balanced use of their hands than those who use a prosthesis, according to research conducted at University of Missouri.
Read MoreAmputee sprinters using running prostheses, or blades, have no clear competitive advantage at the 400-meter distance compared to sprinters with biological legs and, in fact, appear to have a significant disadvantage at the start, according to University of Colorado Boulder research.
Read MoreIn the future, soft robotic hands with advanced sensors could help diagnose and care for patients or act as more lifelike prostheses, according to researchers, in Science Advances.
Read MorePROTEOR USA debuts the Freedom ShockWave, a new PDAC Verified vertical shock carbon fiber prosthetic foot with axial rotation.
Read MoreTwo peer-reviewed research papers based on outcome measure data collected at Arm Dynamics examine how patient-reported and performance-based assessments correlate, and what factors impact the perceived function of people who wear an upper limb prosthesis.
Read MoreThe new Click Reel, created by Steamboat-based Click Medical in partnership with Seattle-based design firm IDeology, is designed to empower patients to make micro and macro adjustments of their devices quickly and easily.
Read MoreDozens of children and adults spent Sunday morning in Manchester, N.H., running and playing during an event focused on helping those who have lost limbs or have other limb differences learn how they can be more physically active and fit, Boston Globe reports.
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