Sentences with phrase «prosthetic leg at»

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

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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.

At Arthesis we create beautiful prosthetic covers for leg amputees who want to express themselves boldly and creatively.

But last summer, a team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge showed that Pistorius's prosthetic limbs didn't generate as much force against the ground as biological 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.

The Patent Office granted 133 patents for artificial limbs and other prosthetic devices between 1861 and 1873; at the same time, the federal government and many states also established programs that distributed artificial arms and legs to veterans free of charge.

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

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.

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

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.

At a forced support group meeting, she bumps into Augustus (Elgort), a free spirit with a prosthetic leg who is currently in remission.

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.

Molly the Pony had her right, front leg amputated and was fitted for a prosthetic leg — a first at LSU.

Our purpose at My Pet's Brace is to help pet families and veterinary professionals help animals benefit from the cutting edge clinical application of leg braces, orthotics and prosthetics.

Our friends at Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics are fitting Dan with really cool «legs» and Dan could not be happier!

Dan has finished all of his skin grafts at Capital Veterinary Specialists and is being fitted for his prosthetic leg.

Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up, opening in June at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, will showcase more than 200 objects, including the artist's makeup, clothes, jewelry, and prosthetic leg.

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.

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.

One or both legs have been amputated at or above the ankle, and this amputation prevents the use of a prosthetic device, OR

Last time we tried a leg amputation accident case, we brought in a prosthetic's expert from the client's prosthetic manufacturer from Hanger Orthopedic in Minnesota who I thought was a very effective witness at trial.

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.

Even if you chose to use a prosthetic leg, you would be at a diminished capacity to run in marathons and be able to claim the loss of enjoyment of life in your personal injury claim.