Thomas Gee, a former gymnast, used to do handstands, perform wheelies on his skateboard, and run around with his three young ...

Imagine having blocked arteries in your legs and not knowing it. At first, there may be no symptoms at all. Just occasional ...

MIT researchers have developed a new bionic knee that can help people with above-the-knee amputations walk faster, climb ...

Objectives To evaluate the healthcare cost of amputation and prosthesis for management of upper and lower extremities in a single institute. Design Retrospective cohort study conducted between 2000 ...

A new hybrid soft tissue model, which is mainly based on the mass-spring model (MSM) and the 3-D finite strain nonlinear anisotropic elasticity theory, is presented for visio-haptic simulations, such ...

Our purpose is to assess if bone drilling sounds could be used to automatically distinguish between hard- and soft-bone tissues. Such a capability could be of value in a variety of surgical procedures ...

East Texas hospital adds robot-assisted treatment to fight soft tissue tumors The electrical pulse causes cell death of the targeted tissue and keeps healthy tissue intact while killing tumor cells.

Multiple operations may be attempted over several years, with serial debridements, bony stabilization, soft-tissue reconstruction, and one or more bone grafts.

QBiotics' CEO and Managing Director, Stephen Doyle commented, "We are delighted with the outcomes from Stage 1 of our Phase IIa Soft Tissue Sarcoma trial. Tigilanol tiglate met both its primary and ...

Fine tuning physical cues of silk fibroin (SF) biomaterials to match specific requirements for different soft tissues would be advantageous. Here, amorphous SF nanofibers were used to fabricate ...

Soft tissue sarcoma can start in muscle, blood vessels, and fibrous tissue in the leg. STS in the leg may cause a tender growing lump. Learn more here.

Targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) is a procedure that redirects nerves severed by amputation to new muscle targets. The aim is to reduce residual limb pain or phantom limb pain. It also aims to ...