A hospital volunteer is using the personal trauma of losing both his legs to inspire patients at Watford General Hospital who ...

Rustam Nabiev becomes the first double amputee to climb Mount Everest using only his arms without prosthetics.

CHICAGO -- A 19-year-old who lost both legs during in a car crash last year got a new set of prosthetic legs, thanks to a Boston Marathon bombing survivor. Heather Abbott was cheering on marathon ...

"Smart" prosthetic legs can help amputees achieve a natural walking gait, but it's done through robotic sensors and algorithms that drive the limb forward at predetermined rates. A better way would be ...

A commercial robotic leg could potentially benefit both higher- and lower-mobility amputees, University of Michigan roboticists have shown for the first time. The leg provided the largest gains when ...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. — Fourteen years after an explosion in an Afghan village took both of his legs and nearly his life, former 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper Jon Harmon is preparing to step into the ...