With his bones fused together – saving his hip and spine – doctors fitted Prindle with an artificial leg that uses computers in the hip and knee joints to teach him how to walk.

There are three main bones in the leg. The femur is the long bone in your thigh that connects your hip to your knee; it’s also your body's longest and strongest bone. There are two bones in your ...

Walking on a full prosthetic leg is hard work. Even strong, athletic people don't always succeed, Mayerson said. Because Prindle was losing much of his pelvis and tailbone, he faced greater obstacles.

Lucy's pelvic, hip, and leg bones offered more proof. As in a human, Lucy's thighbones (femurs) angle in from the hip toward the knee. Her shinbones (tibiae) ...

Various types of bone cancer may occur in the hip. Bone cancer in the hip may cause pain, swelling, or fractures. Read about causes, diagnosis, and treatment.

But that pelvic bone didn't become useless when the animals switched from walking to swim ... No longer adapted to support hind legs, the pelvis has been swayed by sexual selection.

An attendee at the American Association for Hip and Knee Surgeons 2022 Annual Meeting in Texas broke a Guinness World Record by assembling the bones of the human leg in 78 seconds.

Most commonly, chondrosarcoma develops in pelvic, arm, and leg bones. However, it may also occur in the shoulder blades, ribs, or skull. Causes and risk factors for bone cancer.