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  2. Mechanics of Oscar Pistorius's running blades - Wikipedia

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    At sprinting speeds of 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0 m/s, Pistorius produced longer foot to ground contact times, shorter leg swing times, and lower average vertical forces than able bodied sprinters. The team concluded that running on the blades appears to be physiologically similar but mechanically different from running with biological legs.

  3. 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.

  4. Robotic prosthesis control - Wikipedia

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    Hugh Herr demonstrating new robotic prosthetic legs at TED 2014: "That was the first demonstration of a running gait under neural command. The more I fire my muscles, the more torque I get." The terms k (spring stiffness), θ 0 (equilibrium angle), and b (dampening coefficient) are all parameters found through regression and tuned for different ...

  5. Resilience Achieved: Ryleigh Farson competes for first time ...

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    Ryleigh received a special running blade prosthetic at no cost, via the Timothy J. Piazza Memorial Foundation from New Jersey that approved her application in just a few hours.

  6. Prosthetics in fiction - Wikipedia

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    In the young adult realistic fiction novel The Running Dream, the protagonist Jessica is a runner who loses a leg in a bus accident on her way home from a race. With the help of her community, Jessica's family saves enough money to buy her a prosthetic leg designed for running.

  7. Haunted by military past and leg amputation, Army veteran ...

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    The first time he went for a jog on his prosthetic leg he barely made it a couple hundred yards. But this year, just two years after his leg was amputated, he’s running in 12 marathons ...

  8. 15-year-old receives surprise prosthetic running foot at clinic

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    At age 1, Joseph Alvarado contracted a life-threatening bacterial infection that resulted in the amputation of his left leg above the knee and multiple fingertips. 15-year-old receives surprise ...

  9. Scout Bassett - Wikipedia

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    Scout Bassett (born Zhu Fuzhi; [1] August 18, 1988) is an American Paralympic track and field athlete. [1] [2]Bassett spent her first seven years of life in a government-run orphanage in Nanjing, China after she was found abandoned on the side of a street following the tragic loss of her right leg in a chemical fire as a newborn baby.