"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 ...

Jayce, 9, who lost his prosthetic leg during a recent family trip to the beach A Texas grandmother says she's grateful for the overwhelming response to an online fundraiser she started after her ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Smart" prosthetic legs can help amputees achieve a natural walking gait, but it's done through robotic sensors and algorithms that drive the limb forward at predetermined rates. A better way would be ...

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 ...

LaVar Ball appears to be in good spirits now that he has a prosthetic leg about seven months after he had part of his right leg amputated. Ball showed off the prosthetic in a pair of videos posted 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 ...

Thanks to a neural interface, people can move this bionic limb naturally—just by thinking about it. When someone loses part of a leg, a prosthetic can make it easier to get around. But most ...