prosthesis

Archival discoveries, including a long-forgotten 19th-century autobiography, are changing how historians understand Shadrack Byfield, an English veteran of the War of 1812 who buried his own amputated arm and later created a custom prosthesis.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026

"It wasn't so easy to paint back then, but now everything is very different," says Cristian Juarez, a 29-year-old who works with a prosthesis after losing his right leg in an accident 11 years ago.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

He later said he was fortunate to not have a prosthesis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

She also has a white prosthesis in the place of one leg.

From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2025

There is the soldier who lost a leg and is learning to walk with a prosthesis.

From "Lucky Broken Girl" by Ruth Behar

The most recent work, Berenice Olmedo’s “Amalia,” a motorized sculpture of a leg made from medical prostheses, splints and braces, was created in 2021, a comment on difficulties faced by the disabled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

The centre was set up around 60 years ago by a Belgian Catholic association and has a workshop for producing prostheses, splints and braces.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

She described it as a "very unique case" because of the number of prostheses that had to be made without being able to copy any of the patient's fingers.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025

A major challenge to developing better neural prostheses is sensory encoding: transforming information captured from the environment by sensors into neural signals that can be interpreted by the nervous system.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024

Olga has promised to get the young man prostheses, which cost $1,800.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario