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2. College Park Industries - Wikipedia

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   College Park Industries. 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. 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 ...

4. Aimee Mullins - Wikipedia

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   Aimee Mullins (born 1975) [1][2][3][4] is an American athlete, actress, and public speaker. She was born with a medical condition that resulted in the amputation of both of her legs beneath the knee. She is the first amputee to compete against nondisabled athletes in National Collegiate Athletic Association events, and competed in the ...

5. Flex-Foot Cheetah - Wikipedia

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   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 Paralympics ...

6. Girl with prosthetic leg denied access to slides at water park

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   (OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok.) -- An Oklahoma family says they were discriminated against at Frontier City because of their daughter's prosthetic leg. Averie Mitchell, 8, was born with a condition that ...

7. What it’s like to be a professional cornhole player with no ...

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   Dayton Webber, 25, is a professional cornhole player in the American Cornhole League. Since he was 10 months old, he has been a quadruple amputee. In an essay for TODAY, he shares what it took to ...