A solid pair of walking shoes can do more than just protect your toes. They support your whole body and can even protect ...

E-BAR, MIT's mobile robot, provides physical support for seniors with handlebars that follow from behind, helping prevent falls while maintaining dignity for aging adults.

Whether on a trail or a sidewalk, poles help you safely go farther, faster and engage your upper body. Here’s how to reap the ...

Gadwal: District Collector B.M. Santhosh emphasized that differently-abled individuals should fully utilize the welfare ...

This innovative wearable device from Brazil aids visually impaired individuals by using tactile feedback for obstacle ...

Researchers from the São Paulo State University (UNESP) and the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) in Brazil have ...

uea.ac.uk Objective To assess the health benefits of outdoor walking groups. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis of walking group interventions examining differences in commonly used ...

In elderly care, the influence of assistive walking devices on gait time-frequency signal characteristics has to be examined for proper diagnoses, assessment of rehabilitations, and fall risk ...

Assistive devices (and related technologies known as “adaptive equipment”) help us perform many of our daily tasks with less pain, improve our level of independence, and allow us to preserve the ...

As many as 200 persons with disability (divyangs) were distributed free artificial aids and assistive devices at a ...

In a significant step toward empowering persons with disabilities, Delhi’s Social Welfare Minister, Ravinder Indraj Singh, on Saturday distributed tricycles and other assistive devices under the ...

The assistive lower-limb exoskeleton is a robot device that assists people with poor motion skills to walk and make normal motion activities. The lower-limb exoskeleton aims, through mimicking the ...