19/11/2020
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Amputee Strengthening: Preparing for Your Prosthesis
Instructional video on exercises that will strengthen your residual limb in order to best prepare for a prosthetic limb, or to improve your walking! CLICK BE...
19/11/2020
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PM Modi offers sophisticated artificial limbs to differently abled
New Delhi, April 27 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered sophisticated artificial limbs to the differently abled people in New Delhi on Monday. Modi w...
29/12/2017
Indian Army provides wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs to disabled in Kashmir | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis
Indian Army provides wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs to disabled in Kashmir - The army distributed wheelchairs and artificial limbs to the disabled people in Jammu and Kashmi's Poonch district.
06/08/2016
Innovation in Pediatrics Prosthetics
The Latest Innovation In Child Prosthetics Showcases Super Heroes And Disney Characters
"They’re not just getting medical devices, they’re getting bionic hands inspired by their favorite characters."
23/12/2015
Amputee model appears modeling shoes in new Nordstrom catalog
Lauren Wasser, 28, had to have her leg amputated after developing TSS in 2012. She thought she'd never work again, but recently landed a spot in Nordstrom's holiday catalog.
20/12/2015
Do you Know?
Late Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam (former president of India and popularly known as the 'Missile Man') was the brain behind developing composite material technology used in designing light weight orthosis (brace) for polio patients. This light-weight walking aid for polio patients, FRO (Floor Reaction Orthosis), developed as a medical spin-off of the advanced composite technology used in making missile nose cones. Fitted to many differently abled in 1990s. Such a multi dimensional personality was he.
Let us all pay homage to this noble soul, may he Rest in Peace.
source:http://www.drdo.gov.in/drdo/pub/techfocus/apr98/drdo.htm
18/12/2015
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Cheaper, High-Performing Prosthetic Knee Being Tested in India
Scientists, including those of Indian-origin, have designed a cheap prosthetic knee that mimics normal walking motion and are testing the prototype in India, where about 230,000 above-knee amputees currently live.
16/12/2015
A Prosthetic Hand That Sends Feelings to Its Wearer | MIT Technology Review
A new nerve interface can simulate a sense of touch from 20 spots on a prosthetic hand.
15/12/2015
Bionic Arm.. Latest and most innovative
‘The Hunger Games’ Actress fitted with new bebionic hand - bebionic
But possibly her most exciting challenge to date came on the set of the movie “Hunger Games, Mockingjay” where she portrayed the role of a person in a make-shift hospital who had just lost their arm in battle. A graduate Psychology student at Southeastern Louisiana State University, Angel is writing…
05/09/2015
3-D Printed Prosthetics
New open source designs and advances in 3-D printing are bringing affordable prosthetics to children around the world.