Sentences with phrase «prosthetic leg»

I now have 12 pairs of 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.

The knee is produced by Otto Bock, a German company that developed a groundbreaking computer - controlled prosthetic leg in the 1990s called the C - Leg.

Man made prosthetic legs don't count.

Huang's team set out to understand exactly what happens to users of powered prosthetic legs when there's an error in the decoding technology.

Oursler was quoted yesterday saying that Kaelynne is able to walk a little with a new prosthetic leg at Boston's Spaulding Rehabilition Hospital.

Bauman, who uses prosthetic legs, and Gyllenhaal became close during filming and remain friends.

The RIC's most recent advance, the development of the world's first mind controlled prosthetic leg, was aided by $ 8 million worth of funding from the U.S. Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center.

And prosthetic legs don't really go in the water, so it was always just kind of an alienating feeling being like, Well, you know I have to take my leg off now.

From Don Markus at The Baltimore Sun, former Maryland Terrapin Club president Colin Potts has a new prosthetic leg, and has some big aspirations for his future.

The new 3D printed prosthetic leg prototypes, made from extruded polymer resin, looked more like a walking boot and less like a foot, which meant that while they were bulkier, they were more stable.

The show on display includes the diptych slide projection Dispossession (2013), a work composed of two reproductions of historical paintings depicting Catholic masses, a sculpture made up of antique prosthetic legs, a number of photo collages that explore queer and pop culture, and a room where people can enjoy blues music.

Contreras - Vidal said the next step will be to translate the discovery to a high - tech prosthetic leg that can automatically adjust to different terrains through a brain - machine interface, developed by his collaborator Helen Huang of North Carolina State University.

His first prosthetic legs were made of plaster of paris.

A lot of them can go back because we've got good prosthetic legs, and now we've got the prosthetic arm that's really close to being FDA [Food and Drug Administration] approved.

Ultimately, Herr would like to deliver a «biohybrid» prosthetic leg system in which the limb moves much like a human leg and can be controlled by the wearer's neurological system.

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.

Here are some other pieces from that collection, a dress, an ensemble, rather, with a skirt that's made from plywood, and this beautiful leather corset, a leather bodice that was made by the prosthetics workshops at Roehampton hospital, with these amazing prosthetic legs that were carved from ash wood that have filigree relief carving inspired by Grinling Gibbons.

The path to retribution winds through a gnarled plot involving Transcontinental Railroad corruption, a Custer - like Cavalry leader (Barry Pepper), a whorehouse madam (Helena Bonham Carter) sporting an ivory prosthetic leg with a shotgun built inside, and cannibal bunny rabbits.

The female characters, alas, are given considerably less to do: Sophie Cookson makes scant impression as one of Eggsy's fellow recruits; and Sofia Boutella, who plays Valentine's right - hand woman, is notable principally for her razor sharp prosthetic legs — an ironic updating (and not the only one) of Rosa Klebb's switchblade shoes in From Russia with Love.

Valentine's assistant Gazelle (Sofia Boutella), meanwhile, is a walking example on bladed prosthetic legs, which double as tools for dismemberment and, in one grisly moment, bifurcation.

The students designed prosthetic legs out of old car parts.

Since then, he created a successful business making prosthetic legs and learned to snowboard so well that he's about to compete in the 2018 Winter Paralympics.

When amputees receive powered prosthetic legs, the power of the prosthetic limbs needs to be tuned by a prosthetics expert so that a patient can move normally — but the prosthetic often needs repeated re-tuning.

One year later, she was walking on prosthetic legs.

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).

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.

Now he's running hard, sweat on his back, his prosthetic leg gleaming in the noonday sun.

You're cruising down the cereal aisle when your preschooler spots a man in shorts with a prosthetic leg.

The Democratic party was irked by Luthmann when he sent a letter to opponent Liedy, who's 66 and has a prosthetic leg, asking whether he could psychically handle the election, the Advance reported.

You get all his accessories from the TV show, plus an alternate amputated leg, prosthetic leg, and alternate head.

Powered prosthetic legs are programmed so that the angle of the prosthetic joints — the knee or ankle — while walking mimics the normal movement of the joints when an able - bodied person is walking.

«In addition, people are dynamic — a patient's physical condition may change as he or she becomes accustomed to a prosthetic leg, for example, or they may gain weight.

The researchers found that some errors were so insignificant that users didn't even notice them — particularly errors that were short in duration or that occurred when a user's weight was not being applied to the prosthetic leg.

His prosthetic legs aren't yet neurally controlled, but that's the next generation.

In the fall, I had regained enough mobility to begin the process of having a prosthetic leg designed.

I also avoided showing my prosthetic leg in public at first.

«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!

«Before I got my prosthetic legs, I would do floor exercises like crunches and donkey kicks and leg lifts and pushups, because I wanted to focus on what I had left,» she explained.

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.»

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.

In the music video for her song «Prototype,» her prosthetic leg steals the show.

I wanted to do it myself, to make every pose look as perfect as I could, even with my prosthetic leg.

At what point in a relationship should you tell someone that under your trousers, you're wearing a prosthetic leg?

I am a recent amputee due to accident I have a prosthetic leg I can walk on my own it has taken some time to get use to this I'm caring, loving looking for s man who knows how to treat his woman right.

Her Ngoc Lan, a spitfire cleaning woman with a prosthetic leg and a selfless penchant for helping others, stands out among a stellar cast that includes Christoph Waltz, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis and Udo Kier.

Before I play it, I'm gonna need a security band, a quarnex battery, and that guy's prosthetic leg.

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.