Tracking recent technological updates, operational insights, and prosthetic field developments.
Limb preservation procedures have become a much more common alternative to amputation after critical limb trauma, but high levels of disability result after both lower-limb amputation and lower-limb preservation. The Intrepid Dynamic Exoskeletal Orthosis (IDEO) is a custom passive-dynamic ankle-foot orthosis developed for use in military service members with critical lower-limb injuries.
Read ArticleThis video shows Veterans who have received prosthetic devices and are able to regain independence, due to research done by VA doctors.
Read ArticleVA's Center on the Medical Consequences of Spinal Cord Injury is located at the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Bronx, New York. The center's mission is to improve Veterans' quality of life and increase their longevity by preventing and intervening in the secondary medical consequences that result from having a spinal cord injury. These consequences can include bone and muscle loss, and metabolic and cardiovascular changes.
Read ArticleVA has played a major role in supporting the development of BrainGate. The system, spearheaded by researchers at the Providence VA Medical Center in Rhode Island and Brown University, relies on microelectrodes implanted in the brain to pick up neural signals.
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