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The story of 68-year-old Cynthia Cheak, who lost her left leg and became a fixture in the Golden State Valkyries' Ballhalla crowd, is being told as a sports feel-good. But the part worth sitting with is the line she said first: not one counselor came to talk to her during 72 days in the hospital.
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Alexander Davidson is the first participant in the University of Utah's neuroprosthetics program to use the BIOS direct nerve interface at home for an extended trial. The study tests how a device that restores touch sensation and thought-controlled movement performs across real daily life, not just supervised lab sessions.
University of Colorado biomedical engineering students designed a multilayered heated residual limb warmer for cold-weather use. Their device took the Rehabilitative and Assistive Technologies Prize in the NIH DEBUT Challenge. It is a prototype, but the problem it addresses has been real for as long as winter adaptive sport has existed.
Every US state except Texas provides some Medicaid coverage for prosthetic and orthotic devices for adults over 20. A September 21 advocacy event in Austin built the case for a 2027 legislative attempt. Here is what the gap costs, who it affects, and what the bill would need to do.
Four Italian institutions published the first tissue-engineered regenerative peripheral nerve interface implanted and connected to a peripheral nerve in a preclinical model. The approach is new; clinical trials are a separate timeline.
Researchers at Zhejiang University of Technology tested a bioinspired pressure sensor with three transtibial amputees. The most practically useful result came from the running test.
A wound from a borrowed camper is what's standing between a Mississippi man and his first prosthetic. The neighbors trying to help him understand the order of operations even if they wouldn't describe it that way.
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