prosthetics
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Extremities
Rice University students design force-testing device for makers of children’s 3-D printed prosthetics
HOUSTON – (April 12, 2016) – Those who make 3-D printed prosthetic hands may come to rely on a printed…
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Extremities
LifeHealthcare Orthopaedics and NuVasive Joins Forces with a Unique Product and Renowned Surgeons, to Give Amputees a Real Chance of Receiving Life Changing Prosthetics
On Thursday 17th and Friday 18th March, Dr Munjed Al Muderis and Dr Kevin Tetsworth and their surgical team at…
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Financial
Despite Impressive Advances, Prosthetics Will Struggle to Clear Reimbursement Hurdles, says GlobalData
LONDON, UK (GlobalData), 25 August 2015 – The global market value for prosthetics will rise slowly from just over $1…
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Extremities
Smart Hands: Researchers are 3D Printing Lightweight Bionic Prosthetics With Muscle-like Wires
By Bridget Butler Millsaps The use of–and the art of developing–prosthetics has a history nearly as old as humanity itself.…
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FDA approves the first implantable, above-the-knee prosthesis
By Stacy Lawrence The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved an option for patients who have trouble with the…
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Extremities
3-D Printing Is Changing the Future of Prosthetics
Lucy Vernasco Thanks to 3-D printing, a lifetime of prosthetics will cost less than one commercially made device. Soon enough,…
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Robotics
Hugh Herr isn’t just developing more capable prosthetic limbs. He’s rethinking what humans can do.
By Courtney Humphries, SM ’04 on October 21, 2014 Uncomfortable shoes. Awkward crutches. Painful artificial limbs. When technology meets biology,…
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Implanting Artificial Limbs in the Body
Johnny Matheny, a former commercial baker from Redhouse, Virginia, lost his left arm to bone cancer in 2008. He now…
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