WEST POINT, N.Y. (May 1, 2009) -- Sgt. 1st Class Patrick King is experimenting with a bionic foot created by Cadets Ian Jones, Sarah Goss, Joe Marshall and Jonathan Kralick as a capstone project in ...

Although there have already been birds that received strap-on artificial legs, scientists are now reporting the first successful integration of a prosthetic foot directly into a stork's residual leg ...

With Oskar Aszmann and his team at the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, MedUni Vienna has long been regarded as a world leader in bionic limb reconstruction. It was only ...

The Army is developing advanced bionic feet, thanks to a partnership between Fort Detrick and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The newest version of the Army's bionic foot helped a ...

She is sitting in the corner of a nondescript office whose outdoor sign announces, “Orthotics and Prosthetics, Rehab Engineering.” She seems out of place here, this spectacularly beautiful, willowy ...

“Before I had to walk on my toes, the old foot was stable, very stiff, there was no movement to it.” Retired local Priest Patrick Tierney said. The 76-year-old lost his leg back in 2003 in a car ...

BEDFORD — Burlington resident Mike Welsch, who lost his leg just below the knee after a 1978 motorcycle wreck, has never let his disability keep him from competing in marathons and triathlons. So when ...