PORTLAND, Ore. — The family of a young man battling bone cancer is hoping someone will come across his stolen prosthetic leg. Doctors diagnosed Atticus Root with cancer at the age of 13. The next year ...
"It’s a horrible thing," the man's uncle said. "I mean, who steals a prosthetic leg?" Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and was ...
A trip to Boot Barn turned into an unexpected situation when a man’s prosthetic leg got stuck inside a cowboy boot. But instead of panicking, the store employee grabbed an exacto knife and made a call ...
COORDINATED EFFORT. TRULY, THE SEARCH IS ON FOR THESE PROSTHETICS. UNFORTUNATELY, IT’S LIKE FINDING A NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK HERE. YOU KNOW THEY’RE GOING TO CONTINUE THIS SEARCH, THOUGH. THERE’S A WHOLE ...
NC State’s team is pushing prosthetic technology forward, combining mechanical assistance with artificial intelligence to ...
Amy Pietrafitta has learned to walk seven times. First was as a child and then after an industrial burn led to the amputation of her left leg in 2018. Since then, she’s had “first steps” in prosthetic ...
Sitting in her wheelchair, Haneen al-Mabhouh dreams of rebuilding her family, of cradling a new baby. She dreams of walking ...
Lyric Mariah has two prosthetic legs — one named Bertha, for sneakers, and the other, Tina, for high heels — and they’re taking the Internet by storm. Now a model in London, Mariah has amassed more ...