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A Jaipur foot in production. 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.
In the 2015 film Kingsman: The Secret Service, one of the villains, Gazelle, is seen wearing a pair of bladed Flex-Foot Cheetah. In Half-Life 2 and the subsequent episodes, Dr. Eli Vance has a Flex-Foot Cheetah prosthetic. In the second season of Alice in Borderland, the character Akane Heiya uses a Flex-Foot Cheetah after having her leg amputated.
Phillips sold Flex-Foot to Össur in 2000, which continues to manufacture the artificial foot. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1999 he established Second Wind, a non-profit organization to provide inexpensive and resistant prostheses to amputees around the world, and is now working to create a prosthetic leg for land mine victims in developing countries. [ 3 ]
A pair of AFO (Ankle Foot Orthosis) braces being used to aid bilateral foot drop. Orthotics (Greek: Ορθός, romanized: ortho, lit. 'to straighten, to align') is a medical specialty that focuses on the design and application of orthoses, sometimes known as braces, calipers, or splints. [1]
Purdy was born in Las Vegas in 1979. When she was 19 years old, she contracted Neisseria meningitidis, a form of bacterial meningitis. [1] The disease affected Purdy's circulatory system when the infection led to septic shock; [2] both of her legs had to be amputated below the knee, she lost both kidneys along with hearing in her left ear, [3] and her spleen had to be removed. [1]
France renewed a commitment to help defend freedom of navigation and overflight in the Asia-Pacific Sunday and said that its supersonic fighter jets — a pair of which landed for the first time ...
"THE 1987 CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES – MEMBERS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION". Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines; Official program of the inauguration of the Republic of the Philippines and the induction into office of His Excellency Jose P. Laurel. Bureau of Printing. 1943.
Women's colleges in the Philippines generally offer programs in all levels (from elementary up to graduate school). Most programs are available only for women. However, a few colleges allow male admissions, but only at the postgraduate level (i.e., master's and doctorate, continuing education courses, etc.)