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  2. 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 ...

  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. Prosthesis - Wikipedia

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    The Capua leg (replica) A wooden prosthetic leg from Shengjindian cemetery, circa 300 BCE, Turpan Museum. This is "the oldest functional leg prosthesis known to date". [26] Iron prosthetic hand believed to have been owned by Götz von Berlichingen (1480–1562) "Illustration of mechanical hand", c. 1564 Artificial iron hand believed to date ...

  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. Therdchai Jivacate - Wikipedia

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    Therdchai Jivacate (Thai: เทอดชัย ชีวะเกตุ, RTGS: Thoetchai Chiwaket, born 1941) is a Thai orthopedic surgeon and inventor known for his humanitarian activities in providing free prosthetic limbs to impoverished amputees, and for his development of techniques allowing low-cost, high-quality prostheses to be made from local materials.

  7. James Edward Hanger - Wikipedia

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    James Edward Hanger (February 25, 1843 – June 9, 1919) was a Confederate States Army veteran of the American Civil War, a prosthetist and a businessman. It is reported that he became the first amputee of the war after being struck in the leg by a cannonball. [1] Hanger subsequently designed and created his own prosthesis, then went on to ...

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