It's good to be reminded that you're not alone in your struggles. Several people sent encouraging emails after my last column, in which I wrote about my diagnosis of Charcot neuroarthropathy and my ...

Medicare covers the furnishing and fitting of therapeutic shoes and inserts, called orthotics, for people with diabetes and severe diabetes-related foot disease. It also covers medically necessary ...

This week we are going to discuss a neurologic condition called “foot drop,” which is the result of several different conditions and can be rather problematic. Foot drop is exactly as it sounds, a ...

People with poliomyelitis would walk more normally with the new powered knee-ankle-foot orthosis developed by Mokhtar Arazpour, a researcher and faculty member at the University of Social Welfare and ...

Ankle braces are common in the sport community and there has been concern that stabilizing the ankle joint might alter biomechanics further up the kinetic chain. New research has shown that knee ...

Retrospective study of the degree of gait independence achieved by persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) using knee–ankle–foot orthosis with a medial single hip joint (MSH-KAFO). The 45 patients (36 ...

Hearing aids, dental crowns, and limb prosthetics are some of the medical devices that can now be digitally designed and customized for individual patients, thanks to 3-D printing. However, these ...

MIT engineers have designed pliable, 3D-printed meshes that can be adjusted in terms of flexibility and toughness so they can emulate and support soft tissues such as muscles and tendons. The ...