AMP 1, a team of stand-up amputee basketball players will challenge an able-bodied team at a Long Island, N.Y. charity basketball game on March 25, 2011. The AMP 1 team will demonstrate how, with the help of modern high-tech prosthetics,…
Day: March 25, 2011
Amputee Coalition Design Submitted for “Sponsor a Car Program”
Trent Waggoner, an amputee from Indiana, has submitted a design to include the Knoxville, Tenn.-based Amputee Coalition’s logo to Toyota Racing’s “Sponsor a Car” Program. The design receiving the most votes will be placed on a NASCAR race car. To…
Researchers Develop Nanomodified Surfaces to Seal Prosthetic Implants Against Infection
Despite innumerable technological advances in prosthetics throughout the years, the fact remains that the prosthesis is a foreign body. When the prosthesis is implanted, its alien nature becomes even more evident — due to the open site where the device…