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2. Jaipur foot - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Therdchai Jivacate - Wikipedia

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   Therdchai Jivacate (Thai: เทอดชัย ชีวะเกตุ, RTGS: Thoetchai Chiwaket, born 1941) is a Thai orthopedic surgeon and inventor known for his humanitarian activities in providing free prosthetic limbs to impoverished amputees, and for his development of techniques allowing low-cost, high-quality prostheses to be made from local materials.

4. Flex-Foot Cheetah - Wikipedia

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   2 "bladerunners" using this sort of prosthetic foot. CGI image. 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.

5. Bluetooth-equipped prosthetic legs help double amputee ... - AOL

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   As we've seen, there's plenty of different solutions out there for controlling prosthetic limbs, but the artificial legs now helping Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill walk certainly have to rank up ...

6. Legs4Africa - Wikipedia

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   Additionally, STAND provides physical and emotional rehabilitation services for amputees. It was founded in 2014 by Tom Williams; the registered address is in Arnesby, in Leicestershire. [2] [3] In 2014, the charity raised £6000 with a Crowdfunder campaign. [4] In April 2014, Legs4Africa sent a van carrying about 500 used prosthetic legs to ...

7. NHL amputee returns to ice with prosthetic leg, custom skate

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   The prosthetic was made using a Tuuk blade, which is normally found at the bottom of a skate boot. The skate allows him to move more freely on the ice, from performing crossover turns to even ...