Plans may deny coverage for prosthetic limbs by claiming they aren't medically necessary or are experimental devices, even though microprocessor-controlled knees like Adams' have been in use for ...

That is, if you can afford them. A microprocessor knee — a prosthetic with some smarts in it — can run anywhere from $25,000 to well over $100,000. However [Lucas Galey], a PhD candidate at ...

Plans may deny coverage for prosthetic limbs by claiming they aren't medically necessary or are experimental devices, even though microprocessor-controlled knees like Adams' have been in use for ...

K.J. Reid was so close to death that two nurses at Springfield Memorial Hospital were assigned to him around the clock.

Nerve impulses control the use of the prosthetic arms from muscles left ... first and minimize the use of an electric wheelchair. "My knees being lost made it to where it was a lot more energy ...

It is advisable to implant prosthetic components using antibiotic ... Hemophilia patients with very painful and/or incapacitating knees as a result of the above-mentioned degenerative arthropathy ...