Above-elbow and hand prosthetics represent remarkable achievements in rehabilitative technology, offering individuals comprehensive solutions to challenges of limb loss.

A man with an amputated arm has been given a bionic hand in a surgical breakthrough in Sweden. A study published in Science Translational Medicine on July 12 shows how the patient can now control the ...

Researchers in Europe have developed a prosthetic hand that gave an Italian man with a missing limb the ability to feel sensations of warmth and coolness when touching various objects. The new device ...

A farmer who lost his arm in a harvester accident has become the first NHS patient to be fitted with the world's most advanced bionic limb. Ashley Herbert was just 24 when his right hand got caught in ...

Jerry Majetich lived with intense pain in his right hand for 15 years after suffering serious injuries in a bombing in Iraq in 2005. He decided to have the hand amputated in 2020, and is the first ...

The Mia Hand prosthetic, fused with bone and connected to the nervous system, has given its owner a new lease on life and much less phantom pain. Reading time 2 minutes Scientists appear to have ...

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its ...

Most bionic limbs are controlled by electrical signals generated by muscles moving near the attachment site. But when an arm is amputated above the elbow, the remaining muscles aren't enough to ...

Kent Carson had a full life -- travel, a fiancee, a job as a branch bank manager. He was so healthy he never missed a day on the job, until the late summer of 2012, when he suddenly began suffering ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Dennis Aabo Sorensen lost his left hand when a firework rocket he was holding exploded during New Year's Eve celebrations 10 years ago, and he never expected to feel anything with ...