Mechanical Fingers Give Strength, Speed to Amputees
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Dan Didrick's X-Finger is a mechanical prosthetic device that provides articulation as fast and flexible as the real thing -- without batteries, electronics or motors of any kind.
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A bionic hand, controlled by the patient's mind and muscles, goes on the market
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Defibrillators, stents, artificial knees and hips will be among the gadgets more closely tracked under the new rules.
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Robots will be truly useful when they get sensitive arms and hands, plus the programming to use them properly.
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Three-dimensional images, which helped to show that double amputee Oscar Pistorius receives considerable advantages from carbon fiber blade attachments, have become a significant tool in the drive to improve athletic performances.
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NEW YORK  - After undergoing knee  reconstruction, therapy with a machine that puts the joint  through continuous passive motion leads to improved flexion  when added to conventional physical therapy, according to a  review by Canadian researchers.
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Researchers use bypass technique to restore movement in paralysed rats
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The FDA approves use of the Myomo e100 NeuroRobotic System, a high-tech gizmo that gives weakened limbs a boost and helps retrain damaged neurological pathways.
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A Providence-based research consortium has received $7.2 million in funding for a project to restore arm and leg function to amputees, particularly those who lost limbs in wars.
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Researchers at Simon Frasier University in British Columbia have developed technology that generates electricity from the natural motion of walking. In an article published in the journal Science this month, Max Donelan, an assistant professor of kinesiology, and other team members say their biomechanical energy harvester promises to revolutionize the way people charge the batteries that power all sorts of mobile gear.
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A surgical robot developed by UK scientists makes hip operations so simple even students get good results.
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island  - U.S. researchers on Monday unveiled a computerized prosthetic ankle and foot that could change the lives of a growing number of amputees returning from battle in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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A highly functional bionic hand which was invented by a Scottish NHS worker has gone on the market.
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NEW YORK  - Treadmill training with assistance of robot-driven leg supports, a device called the Lokomat, helps build muscle mass in partially paralyzed stroke patients, German researchers report in the February issue of Stroke.
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'Soldiers love the robotic look' A Scottish prosthetics company engaged in publicising its new bionic hand claims to have achieved significant advances in its field - and says servicemen injured in combat "love the more robotic look" of its technology.â¦
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A computerized brace lets people recovering from knee injuries get their therapy on the go.
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CALGARY (CP) - Medical robots will increasingly hold the surgical key for heart patients living in remote or isolated communities, says a top cardiologist.