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  2. Prosthesis - Wikipedia

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    Improvement in amputation surgery and prosthetic design came at the hands of Ambroise Paré. Among his inventions was an above-knee device that was a kneeling peg leg and foot prosthesis with a fixed position, adjustable harness, and knee lock control. The functionality of his advancements showed how future prosthetics could develop.

  3. 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 ...

  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. In Bolivia, amputees strap on hyperrealistic prosthetic limbs

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    In Bolivia, amputees strap on hyperrealistic prosthetic limbs September 23, 2023 at 5:08 PM (This Sept. 21 story has been corrected to fix the surname of the engineer in paragraphs 6 and 8)

  6. Hugh Herr - Wikipedia

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    The robotic ankle-foot prosthesis, which mimics the action of a biological leg and, for the first time, provides transtibial amputees with a natural gait, was named to the same Time top-ten list in 2007. Herr presenting prosthetic legs at TED 2014, where he first demonstrated a running gait under neural command. Oscar Pistorious

  7. Gait deviations - Wikipedia

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    In transtibial amputees, the adjustment of the foot is highly influential to gait changes. Proper alignment of the prosthetic foot about the ankle joint causes metabolic cost and gait symmetry at the anatomical hip and knee joints to improve, with hip flexion-extension motion being the most sensitive to alignment.

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