Sentences with phrase «on prosthetic legs»

A gallery show, kicking off on Jan. 6, displays the works — created on prosthetic legs — before they're auctioned off online at the end of the month.

One year later, she was walking on prosthetic legs.

Wall Street heavy hitters will help fund the Challenged Athlete Foundation today, which offers wounded veterans and kids the ability to run again on prosthetic legs.

Following two years rehabilitation, learning to walk and run on a prosthetic leg and becoming a qualified football coach, boxing coach and personal trainer, I was medically discharged from the Armed Forces in late 2013.

Not exact matches

The South African paralympic runner inspired millions when he competed in sprint events at the 2012 Summer Olympics on two prosthetic legs, and so a partnership with Nike was a natural fit.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC), which governs the Paralympic Games, regulates prosthetic length for double - leg amputees based on a number of factors including wingspan (from the tips of one's fingers on one hand to those on the other hand while the arms are held perpendicular to the body) and height.

Collins says that people with prosthetic feet and legs use on average about 25 percent more energy when walking than people with natural legs.

«My work has focused on developing technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,» says Dr. Helen Huang, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

It's not easy to build prosthetics for animals that weigh 2,700 kilograms — veterinarians and prosthetists had to invent a new technique just to take casts of the animals» stumps — but today, both elephants are lumbering around on their new legs, made from a combination of plastic and metal.

In a paper published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, the team reports that it has calculated the ideal torque that a prosthetic knee should produce, given the mass of the leg segments, in order to induce able - bodied kinematics, or normal walking.

«Although I have now been an amputee for four years, my operations on my leg are still on going and each time I have an operation, it means I'm unable to wear my prosthetic leg for around 6 - 8 weeks, which limits what I can do in the gym, especially standing exercises!

I also tend to take my prosthetic leg off for both these movements, as my leg can dig in quite uncomfortably if I keep it on to squat or dead lift.»

Latvia - born singer and model Viktoria Modesta released her first music video last week on Channel 4, in which she proudly struts a series of beautiful prosthetic legs.

There's a great scene a little over halfway through David Gordon Green's «Stronger,» in which Jeff Bauman, who lost both of his legs just above the knee in the Boston Marathon bombing, is trying to stand on new prosthetics for the first time.

She was uninjured, but he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, which led to a long period of rehabilitation and learning to walk on his new $ 100,000 prosthetic legs.

THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Starring: Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort Directed by: Josh Boone Two teenagers, one who relies on an oxygen tank and the other with a prosthetic leg, meet and fall in love at a cancer support group.

However, the prosthetic slips off when Pete lifts his leg, so the team is currently working on a third design at the Fabrication Lab, which will employ some sort of system to attach the prosthetic securely to Pete's body, like a flight vest or a half - solid, half - soft boot.

Pete allowed Dr. Latney to attach the prosthetic to his leg, and he was even able to bear weight on it.

Dr. Drygas is hoping to get Dan fitted for a prosthetic on the healed leg within the next week or so.

Their hope is to get the right rear leg to heal well enough that he can continue to walk on it without needing a protective bandage, and get the left rear limb to heal well enough to allow use of a prosthetic.

On the surface, the black inky lines and rich primary colours fit in perfectly with traditional ideas and tropes, but look a little further and things become rather more transgressive — the women on the cards are proudly holding phallic objects, louchely smoking a cigarette, wielding a bloody sword, legs akimbo in suspenders or with prosthetic limbOn the surface, the black inky lines and rich primary colours fit in perfectly with traditional ideas and tropes, but look a little further and things become rather more transgressive — the women on the cards are proudly holding phallic objects, louchely smoking a cigarette, wielding a bloody sword, legs akimbo in suspenders or with prosthetic limbon the cards are proudly holding phallic objects, louchely smoking a cigarette, wielding a bloody sword, legs akimbo in suspenders or with prosthetic limbs.

Highlights of the installation include the diptych slide projection Dispossession (2013), which explores Attia's research on the Vatican's collection of ethnological artifacts; Artificial Nature (2014), a floor sculpture constructed of many antique prosthetic legs; and a work composed of two large - scale reproductions of historical paintings depicting Catholic masses, Émile Jean - Horace Vernet's The First Mass in Kabylia (1854) and Victor Meirelles's The First Mass in Brazil (1861).

In 2010 with Art in Odd Places, for example, the artists had a retired firefighter take an impression of a plaque for those lost on 9/11 at his old station, an Israeli veteran use the back of his prosthetic leg to imprint a High Line bench, and Seisler and her brother make interlocking impressions on a Union Square building.

It did not help matters that at roughly the same time as such stories were appearing in the national press, Mills was a credible competitor on the US version of Strictly Come Dancing, lasting longer than several other competitors, none of whom had to cope (as she did) with one real and one prosthetic leg — hard enough up and down kerbstones, blue murder in a Paso Doble, you would think.