Our soft tissues swell and shrink throughout the day, so a wearable that fits in the morning may not do so in the afternoon. A new adaptive lining for the sockets of prosthetic limbs was designed with ...

The latest advance in wearable robotic technology promises to solve a 200-year-old problem by revolutionising the fit of prosthetic limbs, transforming the lives of millions of amputees worldwide. The ...

A prosthetic socket optimized for thigh amputee patients has been developed for the first time in South Korea. The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (President Park Sang-jin, hereinafter ...

Most patients who suffer a leg amputation above the knee and are fortunate enough to get a prosthetic lower leg usually use traditional “socket” hardware to attach it to their upper thigh. The ...

Researchers have developed a new way of designing and manufacturing bespoke prosthetic liners, in less than a day. Researchers at the University of Bath have developed a new way of designing and ...