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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. 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.

  4. Össur - Wikipedia

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    Össur hf. Össur hf. is a company based in Iceland that develops, manufactures and sells non-invasive equipment for orthopaedics, including bracing and support products, compression therapy, and prosthetics. The company is headquartered in Reykjavík, with offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and distributors in other markets.

  5. 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 ...

  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. 15-year-old receives surprise ...

  7. Rotationplasty - Wikipedia

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    Rotationplasty allows the use of the knee joint, whereas amputation would result in loss of that joint. Therefore, it provides a better attachment point and range of motion for a prosthetic limb. As a result, children who have had rotationplasty can play sports, run, climb, and do more than would be possible with a jointless prosthetic.

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