When sport enthusiast Van Phillips lost his foot in a water-skiing accident, he decided to design a prosthetic leg that allowed him to keep running. In 1984, he made the first prosthetic running ...

Historically, prosthetic limbs were rudimentary ... could mean regaining near-natural control over their artificial leg, drastically improving daily life. This technology is still in development ...

Kirby Lee via AP LaVar Ball has confirmed that his leg was amputated due to diabetes. A month after TMZ reported that the father of basketball stars Lonzo, LiAngelo and LaMelo Ball had his leg ...

Circular Channel Millifluidics. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57634-8 An amputee's desired fit may also change due to the type of activity being undertaken. For ...

A new adaptive lining for the sockets of prosthetic limbs was designed with this important fact very much in mind. Known as "Roliner," the material is being developed by British biomedical startup ...

LaVar Ball opened up about having his right leg amputated, revealing in an essay published Tuesday in SLAM that diabetes complications led doctors to remove part of his limb. In the lengthy piece ...

“I ended up having to get my leg amputated. First, they cut off a couple of toes. Then they cut off my foot. Then they said, ‘We gotta go almost knee high for another surgery.’ Three surgerie ...

LaVar Ball wrote a first-person account for Slam magazine of his experience with diabetes complications that resulted in him having part of his right leg amputated. (Natasha Campos / Getty Images ...

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I ended up having to get my leg amputated. First, they cut off a couple of toes. Then they cut off my foot. Then they said, 'We gotta go almost knee-high for another surgery,'" Ball wrote.

LaVar Ball has detailed why he underwent recent surgery to remove his right foot. “Due to not paying attention to my diabetes … I ended up having to get my foot amputated,” LaVar, cofounder ...

The father of Lonzo, LaMelo and LiAngelo spoke with Slam to share more about his experience of undergoing a partial right leg amputation. LaVar shared that he got an infection in January that ...