When a person loses a leg above the knee, the nerves that once moved that leg don’t simply go quiet. They keep firing.

Patients with lower limb amputation experience ambulation disorders since they rely exclusively on visual information in addition to the tactile information they receive from stump–socket interface.

In A Nutshell For the first time in humans, scientists decoded intended movements across all three joints of a missing leg, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of peripheral nerve stimulation may reduce pain scores and opioid consumption after lower limb amputation, ...

BECAUSE of the interest in the recent publication on peripheral entrapment neuropathies of the upper extremity, 1 it was decided to review these conditions in the lower extremity. An entrapment point ...

Phantom limb pain affects nearly 40 percent of amputees, often persisting despite medications and therapy. Reconstructive surgeon Shaun Mendenhall, MD, outlines why surgical techniques are now ...

Extremity reconstruction surgery can be life-changing for people whose hands, arms or legs have been affected by cancer, an infection, a traumatic injury, congenital (birth) defect, or other ...