This week we are going to discuss one of the most important roles of the physical therapist in the clinic. That is training the patient to walk in a prosthesis for the lower extremity. Whether the ...

This week we are going to discuss something which we have not discussed before—the physical therapist’s intervention in training when a patient receives a prosthesis for an amputated lower extremity.

Upper limb amputees, who typically struggle to learn how to use a new prosthesis, would be more successful if fellow amputees taught them, new research suggests. Most usually learn by watching a ...

In the United States, approximately 185,000 people have an amputation each year, 507 people lose a limb each day, and 2.1 million people currently live with limb loss. By 2050, this number will reach ...

New research says adopting a new, attentional mindset in the field of physical therapy can help amputees live with prosthesis more naturally. There are more than two million people living with an ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- It's not only the wounds from the battlefields that bring patients face to face with artificial limbs. Medical maladies such as diabetes, neuropathies and vehicle and workplace ...

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Neural prostheses have recently shown considerable promise in proof-of-concept animal experiments 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and in human clinical trials 10,11,12,13 for partially restoring motor output in ...