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2. Amy Purdy - Wikipedia

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   Later in 2003, Purdy started working for Freedom Innovations, a prosthetic feet manufacturer, as its "Amputee Advocate". Purdy has gone on to co-found her own non-profit organization, Adaptive Action Sports, [5] a chapter of Disabled Sports USA [6] for individuals with physical disabilities who want to get involved in action sports ...

3. Prosthesis - Wikipedia

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   In the prosthetics industry, a trans-radial prosthetic arm is often referred to as a "BE" or below elbow prosthesis. Lower-extremity prostheses provide replacements at varying levels of amputation. These include hip disarticulation, transfemoral prosthesis, knee disarticulation, transtibial prosthesis, Syme's amputation, foot, partial foot, and ...

4. 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 ...

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. Her baby girl’s deformed limbs inspired her to provide free ...

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   The post Her baby girl’s deformed limbs inspired her to provide free prosthetics to child amputees appeared first on TheGrio. The IREDE Foundation has provided more than 500 artificial limbs at ...

7. Vanderbilt exoskeleton - Wikipedia

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   In December 2014, Parker Hannifin invested in Freedom Innovations, a California-based prosthetic technology company with which it had a pre-existing partnership, to further the development of Indego. Following regulatory approval, Parker Hannifin plans to release Indego in Europe in 2015 and in the United States in 2016.