The average additional cost in the six months following a fall for transfemoral amputee patients requiring an emergency department visit was $18,000. For patients who had to be hospitalized, this ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- In a new study published in Prosthetics and Orthotics International, Mayo Clinic researchers describe the direct medical costs of falls in adults with a transfemoral amputation. In ...

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A commercial robotic leg could potentially benefit both higher- and lower-mobility amputees, University of Michigan roboticists have shown for the first time. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

ORLANDO, Fla., USA — Revision total knee arthroplasty was recommended for Rohrbach type 3 periprosthetic fractures in a presentation at the Current Concepts in Joint Replacement Winter Meeting, here, ...

When a person loses a leg above the knee, the nerves that once moved that leg don’t simply go quiet. They keep firing.