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  2. 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]

  3. Biomechatronics - Wikipedia

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    Biomechatronics. Bio-mechatronics is an applied interdisciplinary science that aims to integrate biology and mechatronics ( electrical, electronics, and mechanical engineering). It also encompasses the fields of robotics and neuroscience. Biomechatronic devices cover a wide range of applications, from developing prosthetic limbs to engineering ...

  4. Flex-Foot Cheetah - Wikipedia

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    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 in the Paralympics ...

  5. 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.

  6. Prosthesis - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, a prosthesis (pl.: prostheses; from Ancient Greek: πρόσθεσις, romanized: prósthesis, lit. 'addition, application, attachment'), or a prosthetic implant, is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through physical trauma, disease, or a condition present at birth (congenital disorder).

  7. 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 ...

  8. Hemicorporectomy - Wikipedia

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    Hemicorporectomy. Hemicorporectomy is a radical surgery in which the body below the waist is amputated, transecting the lumbar spine. This removes the legs, the genitalia (internal and external), urinary system, pelvic bones, anus, and rectum. [1] [2] It is a major procedure recommended only as a last resort for people with severe and ...

  9. From River Park to downtown on foot. Walking Fresno’s gritty ...

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    Stretching from River Park to the edge of downtown, Blackstone is both the city’s signature commercial main drag and enduring testament to poor land use and visual blight. Fresno has streets ...

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