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2. Flex-Foot Cheetah - Wikipedia

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   CGI image. 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 ...

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. Peg leg - Wikipedia

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   By the late 19th century, prosthetics vendors would offer peg legs as cheaper alternatives to more intricate, lifelike artificial legs. [3] Even as vendors touted advantages of more complicated prostheses over simple peg legs, [3] according to a contemporary surgeon, many patients found a peg leg more comfortable for walking. [4]

5. Rescued Pig’s Unique Prosthetic Shoes Allow Her to ... - AOL

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   Ziggy’s has had 18 pairs of prosthetic shoes made for her. The shoes are costly; each one costs a whopping $1,000. Hannah’s also had to have a couple of surgeries and requires “meticulous ...

6. Össur - Wikipedia

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   Its products include Flex-Foot, a prosthetic foot made from carbon fiber, a material used in the aerospace industry for its strength and flexibility. The Flex-Foot Cheetah developed by medical engineer Van Phillips and worn by Alan Oliveira, Markus Rehm, and other amputee athletes is a derivative of this product line.

7. 12-year-old drummer born with no hands receives life-changing ...

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   Aubrey’s new prosthetics are more versatile, her mother added. “The ones she has printed now are for the drums and holding drumsticks, but really, if you wanted (them) to hold kayak ores or ...