Month: December 2014

Myomo has announced an agreement with the nonprofit organization, SoldierSocks, to supply paralyzed veterans with the MyoPro powered arm brace. SoldierSocks has set a goal for the next 3 years of purchasing 120 MyoPro braces for veterans outside the Department…

A Colorado man has become the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control two modular prosthetic limbs with his mind at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. Les Baugh, who lost both arms 40…

A quadriplegic woman who was fitted with a neurological grid that can connect to a computer in 2012 has reached new progress with the recent ability to give a “thumbs up” by maneuvering a prosthetic arm with her mind. Researchers…

Researchers have developed a light-based sensor that can be used to control the movement of prosthetic limbs, according to study results published in Advanced Materials. Ifor Samuel, PhD and Ashu Bansal, PhD, professors at the University of St. Andrews in…

Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Boston has launched an exoskeleton training program for patients with spinal cord injury. The program will use the ReWalk Robotics exoskeleton system, according to a company news release. ReWalk is a wearable robotic exoskeleton that provides user-initiated…

Scientists have developed a stretchable “electronic skin” closely modeled after human skin that can detect not just the existence of pressure but also the direction of the pressure. The study was published in ACS Nano. Hyunhyub Ko, PhD, associate professor…

Ottobock has announced Ryan Wallace of South Lake Tahoe, Calif., as the November winner of its C-Leg Heroes 15-year anniversary photo contest. Wallace’s submission shows his prosthetic socket, inscribed with the names of his family and community who organized a…

In a study of people with lower-limb amputations after discharge from rehabilitation, researchers found non-use of the prosthesis can be predicted at 4 months, 8 months and 12 months after discharge. Researchers audited patient medical records for potential predictor variables.…

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Gerald Stark, MSEM, CPO/L, FAAOP, senior upper limb clinical specialist for Ottobock Health Care, talks about the ways treatment of geriatric patients within O&P is changing and how practitioners can be more accommodating at the New…

A new pilot study at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will investigate foot sensations and vibrating insoles to aid balance in people with multiple sclerosis. “Because the nervous system is compromised in people with multiple sclerosis, they show a much…