Mike Ohlsen reaches down and pets the cheek of Elsa, a mini-donkey born on the farm who's had quite a start to life, on the ...

Abena Christine Jon'el has made Ghana her home and aims to raise the profile of people with disabilities.

An amputee has built a prosthetic leg using LEGO. Christina Stevens, 31, posted a video to YouTube of herself building the leg last month and the video has attracted almost 900,000 views in less than ...

"Smart" prosthetic legs can help amputees achieve a natural walking gait, but it's done through robotic sensors and algorithms that drive the limb forward at predetermined rates. A better way would be ...

Wooden prosthetic leg or "peg leg," consisting of four variously shaped pieces of wood connected using metal bolts. Bottom of leg is flat and rectangular. On one side of leg is a long piece of wood ...

LaVar Ball appears to be in good spirits now that he has a prosthetic leg about seven months after he had part of his right leg amputated. Ball showed off the prosthetic in a pair of videos posted to ...

Advances in biomechanics and prosthetic engineering have significantly transformed our understanding of running in amputee athletes. The integration of running‐specific prostheses (RSPs) has enabled ...

DICKINSON, N.D. -- A tattoo artist in Dickinson makes it easy for Ethan Earl to be proud to wear his prosthetic leg.The 15-year-old from Underwood, N.D., underwent a partial amputation of his right ...

I have been an above-knee amputee for over 50 years. For the first 30 years, my prosthesis was balsa wood with a simple mechanical knee. I fell a lot, could only walk at one fixed speed, would sweat ...

Leg driven by the nervous system helps people with amputation walk naturally READ MORE: Experts create a robot with a face made out of living skin tissue Scientists have developed a prosthetic leg ...

"It happened so quickly," a grateful Monica Swindall tells PEOPLE Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work previously appeared in the ...

IT’S NOT EVERY DAY THAT YOU SEE SOMEONE WALKING WITH THE FOOT ON THEIR PROSTHETIC LEG FACING BACKWARDS, BUT THIS IS A REALITY FOR ROSS HOLLAND. IT’S SO MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE. IT’S SO MUCH EASIER.