This New Bionic Knee Is Changing The Game For Lower Leg Amputees

This New Bionic Knee Is Changing The Game For Lower Leg Amputees

This New Bionic Knee Is Changing The Game For Lower Leg Amputees Courtesy of the researchers, MIT An advance in prosthetics 7 years in the making has jumped into life with a lower-leg device that feels more like a part of the body than any other commercially-available product. Considered something like a prosthesis in three layers, tests have shown it to grant greater agility, comfort, and sense of “embodiment,” a sensation of oneness that’s usually reserved for upper body prosthetics. “We actually are pushing the definition of what a prosthesis can be, and that’s why we say it’s a tissue-integrated prosthesis,” said Tony Shu, lead author of the study from MIT’s Yang Center for Bionics. “There’s a part that you will never be able to take off without another surgery.” The three layers begin with a restoration—in this case, with above the knee amputees—of the push-pull function of muscles which was done by connecting the severed tissue directly to the prosthetic. Along with being vital for us…