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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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    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 ...

  4. Vanderbilt exoskeleton - Wikipedia

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    The Vanderbilt exoskeleton, marketed as Indego, [1] [2] is a powered exoskeleton designed by the Center for Intelligent Mechatronics at Vanderbilt University in the U.S. state of Tennessee. [3] [4] It is intended to assist paraplegics, stroke victims and other paralyzed or semi-paralyzed people to walk independently. [5]

  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. 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 ...

  7. Nigerian group provides hundreds of prosthetic limbs to ... - AOL

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    The accident that broke 10-year-old Princess Igbinosa's right leg could have crushed her dreams of becoming a model in a country where not many can afford prosthetics to cope with life and fight ...

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