Yet, such artifacts are rare direct sources into the lives of historical amputees. We focus on the tools amputees used in 16th- and 17th-century Europe. There are few records written from amputees’ ...

Mice can develop a sense of embodiment of an artificial limb, similar to humans who participate in the rubber-hand illusion experiment, according to a study published in PLOS Biology by Luc Estebanez ...

The loss of a limb following an injury, accident or disease can greatly reduce quality of life, making it harder for people ...

During his final semester at college, Vitaliy Bondarchuk created a multitool prosthetic arm, which is more than just a senior ...

The demand for artificial limbs is climbing in Russia as Vladimir Putin struggles to provide “necessary combat medical ...

Paul McCullough served as the director of the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoner’s limb shop in 1952 and led prisoners in the production of various artificial limbs. McCullough noted that ...

Of the beneficiaries, 176 were men and 37 were women. Most of the recipients -- 66 patients -- belonged to the 51–60 age ...

Russia supplied 152,500 artificial limbs in 2024, 53% more than the previous year, Britain’s defense intelligence agency said ...

When P Subash lost both his legs and hands due to electrocution in 2021, he never thought he would be able to walk again. But ...