A wooden big toe that enabled a priest’s daughter to walk around 3,000 years ago has been found to be even more complex than researchers believed. It is thought to be one of the oldest prosthetic ...

When most of us walk over uneven ground, our feet respond to the dips and humps by flexing the ankle and moving the toes. Prosthetic feet typically don't do so, often resulting in falls. An ...

Researchers have suspected two Egyptian artificial toes are the world's oldest known prosthetic body parts. A new study suggests that is the case: Volunteers without a big toe showed the prosthetics ...

In a press release, Egyptologists at the University of Basel in Switzerland say they have been studying a 3,000-year-old wooden toe found in a necropolis near Luxor, formerly known as Thebes. The ...

An artificial big toe attached to the foot of an ancient Egyptian mummy could prove to be the world’s earliest functional prosthetic body part, say scientists. Research at The University of Manchester ...

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In the United States, approximately 185,000 people have an amputation each year, 507 people lose a limb each day, and 2.1 million people currently live with limb loss. By 2050, this number will reach ...

Until now, an artificial leg made of bronze and wood and found buried with a Roman aristocrat in southern Italy dating to 300 b.c. was thought to be the first prosthesis. Finch's work suggests, ...