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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. Parasports - Wikipedia

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   College Park Industries, a manufacturer of prosthetic feet, organized this event to give amputee athletes a venue to compete in this increasingly popular sports genre also referred to as action sports. This annual event held in the summer in Orlando, includes competitions in skateboarding, wakeboarding, rock climbing, mountain biking, surfing ...

4. 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 ...

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. Hugh Herr - Wikipedia

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   Hugh Herr (born October 25, 1964) is an American rock climber, engineer, and biophysicist. When he was young, both of his legs were amputated below the knee during a blizzard in a rock climbing trip. [1] After months of surgeries and rehabilitation, Herr began climbing again, using specialized prostheses he designed for himself, becoming the ...

7. College Park, Maryland - Wikipedia

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   2390578. Website. www.collegeparkmd.gov. College Park is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, [3] located approximately four miles (6.4 km) from the northeast border of Washington, D.C. Its population was 34,740 at the 2020 United States census. It is the home of the University of Maryland, College Park .