Solico, a leading composite engineering specialist for the Industrial, Marine and Defence sectors, is delighted to announce its recent collaboration with innovative prosthetics specialists Axiles ...

Ordinarily, prosthetic legs have ankle joints that are passive, moving only in response to pressure exerted by the user. As a result, walking up stairs or over uneven ground can be difficult. A new ...

Jasmine is a neuroscientist at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre. Jasmine is a neuroscientist at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre.View full profile Jasmine is a neuroscientist at the Sainsbury Wellcome ...

The next time Patrick Tierney hits the beach, he'll likely walk along the shorefront, crunching his feet atop the shifting sand. Then he’ll slowly wade into the surf making sure to keep his balance ...

Liz Metzger wanted the chance to create a medical device that could help change lives. The MSR program’s final project gave her the opportunity to do just that. Liz Metzger (MSR ‘23) earned her ...

A recent case study demonstrates that, with training, neural control of a powered prosthetic ankle can restore a wide range of abilities, including standing on very challenging surfaces and squatting.

1 Department of Sport Science, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Central Analytic Facility, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa 3 Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine ...

For people who spend every day walking around like it’s nothing, it can be easy to forget that walking is actually incredibly hard. There are dozens of minute leg and foot movements involved in taking ...