UPDATE: May 8, 2019: Ottobock said it was disappointed in FTC's decision but said it would continue to "work in a collaborative manner with the FTC to promptly reach a mutually beneficial resolution." ...

WORCESTER - Sister Maureen Lewis has been saying her prayers standing up or sitting down since her right leg was amputated in November 2015, but with her new microprocessor knee, her prosthetists at ...

A bionic knee is transforming lives. Researchers with the Hanger Clinic say it’s allowing people with a shorter built height access to microprocessor technology. Albert Guzman, 28, from Coconut Grove, ...

Donald Crosby, injured by a gunshot wound during combat in the Vietnam War, has worn a prosthetic leg since 1971, so he can attest to how much better prostheses are now compared with then. “The very ...

More than 2 million Americans have lost a limb, and it's estimated there are 185,000 amputations every year. New technology in prosthetics is helping many amputees move forward. Robert Wright has kept ...

WASHINGTON (Dec. 10, 2009) -- Several wounded warriors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center are testing a new microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knee. The X2 microprocessor knee, the result of a ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC — A new study by the RAND Corp showing that amputees who receive microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knees (MPKs) have fewer falls and injuries than those who get older devices could ...

The direct medical costs of falls in adults with a transfemoral amputation are described in a new article. In a new study published in Prosthetics and Orthotics International, Mayo Clinic researchers ...

It took a 40-foot fall to set Jonathan Bik on a collision course with the brave new world of the bionic knee. The fall happened nine years ago when Bik was descending a utility pole during a tryout ...

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 ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- In a new study published in Prosthetics and Orthotics International, Mayo Clinic researchers describe the direct medical costs of falls in adults with a transfemoral amputation. In ...