Alex Young from Blandford, Dorset, developed osteomyelitis - a potentially deadly bone infection that caused him severe pain.

Chamberland explains that the organization’s work centers on children and veterans, while remaining available to amputees of all ages across the United States.

"It happened so quickly," a grateful Monica Swindall tells PEOPLE Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work previously appeared in the ...

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 ...

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif. -- A 4-year-old boy from Rancho Santa Margarita captured the hearts of many when sister station ABC7 in Los Angeles reported his prosthetic leg was stolen from the beach ...

Students at Gulfport High School are changing lives far beyond the classroom. They’re building prosthetic legs for people in ...

A commercial robotic leg could potentially benefit both higher- and lower-mobility amputees, University of Michigan roboticists have shown for the first time. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Genoa (Italy), 30 October 2024: Two lower limb prosthetic prototypes developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT - Italian Institute of Technology) took the podium at Cybathlon 2024, the ...

Businessman and father of the Ball Brothers, the 57-year-old LaVar Ball had his right foot and part of his lower right leg amputated earlier in February 2025. The amputations were done in three stages ...

Emma Bennett is walking now like never before, wearing shoes she never dreamed of putting on. You might remember the viral video from last month in which a 10-year-old girl was overwhelmed at getting ...