An engineering professor hopes to develop an alternative below-knee prosthesis capable of actively powering the ankle joint for amputees. Most people probably do not spend much time contemplating the ...

SURGICAL opinion varies widely as to the advisability of performing below-knee amputations in limbs that exhibit diminished circulation at the level of amputation. It has been shown that below-knee ...

FOR more than ten years there has been a tendency to use below-the-knee rather than supracondylar amputation at the New England Deaconess Hospital in the management of diabetic gangrene when more ...

In Jaipur, India, about 150 patients show up every day at an organization that creates low-cost prosthetic limbs for people with mobility problems. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on ...