Paul McCullough served as the director of the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoner’s limb shop in 1952 and led prisoners in the production of various artificial limbs. McCullough noted that the ...
We all have a sense of ownership over our bodies, a feeling that our limbs are an undeniable part of us. This sense of embodiment is key to how we interact with the world. However, the innate sense of ...
Thanks to recent technological developments, amputees can now sense temperature through prosthetic limbs. Known as the MiniTouch, this heat-sensitive prosthetic hand has a thermal sensor embedded ...
He was hailed as a medical marvel – an armless boy who, with the aid of the newest technology, became the first person in the world fitted with an artificial limb with three-way movement. It was 1960 ...
LAGOS, Nigeria — The accident that broke 10-year-old Princess Igbinosa's right leg could have crushed her dreams of becoming a model in a country where not many can afford prosthetics to cope with ...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The accident that broke 10-year-old Princess Igbinosa’s right leg could have crushed her dreams of becoming a model in a country where not many can afford prosthetics to cope ...
Chevron Bangladesh implemented the artificial limb project in Sylhet, bringing smiles to amputees and people with disabilities ...
A voluntary organisation has said that it will hold a camp on January 18 at Dombivali in Maharashtra’s Thane district to ...
The rubber-hand illusion was translated to the mouse model. Just like in humans, embodiment in mice can be achieved by brushing the real forelimb of the mouse and the artificial limb (yellow) in ...
Functioning from the Rehabilitation and Artificial Limb Centre (RALC) building under the DPMR, the unit has been operating ...