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2. Jaipur foot - Wikipedia

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   Jaipur foot. The Jaipur foot, also known as the Jaipur leg, is a rubber-based prosthetic leg for people with below-knee amputations. Although inferior in many ways to the composite carbon fibre variants, its variable applicability and cost efficiency make it an acceptable choice for prosthesis.

3. Flex-Foot Cheetah - Wikipedia

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   Flex-Foot Cheetah. The Flex-Foot Cheetah is a prosthetic human foot replacement developed by biomedical engineer Van Phillips, who had lost a leg below the knee at age 21; the deficiencies of existing prostheses led him to invent this new prosthesis. The Flex-Foot Cheetah and similar models are worn by Oscar Pistorius and other amputee athletes ...

4. Van Phillips (inventor) - Wikipedia

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   Biography. He is known for the Flex-Foot brand of artificial foot and limbs that he created, [2] and for his charity work for amputees. [3] An amputee himself, having lost a leg below the knee at age 21, Phillips was motivated by the limitations of then-existing artificial limbs to attend the Northwestern University Medical School Prosthetic ...

5. College Park Industries - Wikipedia

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   College Park Industries, Inc. The Soleus foot. Bilateral lower-limb amputee Reggie Showers rock climbing on Trustep feet. College Park Industries [1] is a prosthetics manufacturer headquartered in Warren, Michigan. The company was founded in 1988 after a local machinist set out to create the world's most anatomically correct prosthetic foot. [2]

6. 15-year-old receives surprise prosthetic running foot at clinic

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   At age 1, Joseph Alvarado contracted a life-threatening bacterial infection that resulted in the amputation of his left leg above the knee and multiple fingertips.

7. Koala receives world-first prosthetic foot - AOL

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   This koala is the world's first to get a prosthetic footLocation: Lismore, Australia(SOUNDBITE) (English) VET NURSE, MARLEY CHRISTIAN, SAYING:"Once I put the little boot on him and he did this ...