Sentences with phrase «prosthetic leg in»

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

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.

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.

One of Stratasys» subsidiaries can even scan the surviving leg of an amputee wounded in combat while still in field in Afghanistan and have a new, perfectly - fitted 3D - printed prosthetic ready hours later when he's delivered to Germany for surgery.

Wise has also had the opportunity to support his family in turn — for example, pledging 10 percent of his winnings and endorsement earnings to a charity he and his sisters founded that provides children with prosthetic limbs (Wise's sister Christy, an Air Force pilot, lost her leg in a 2015 boat accident).

Over the last decade lightweight carbon fiber and improvements in the design of the prosthetic racing foot have so improved performance that some people believe a human being without legs could have an advantage over one with them.

Matt's right leg ends in a silver prosthetic and as another string of cars barrels by, he has to shuffle around the puppy to watch the action.

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

Recent advances in robotics technology make it possible to create prosthetics that can duplicate the natural movement of human legs.

«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.

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.

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 walkinIn 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 walkinin 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 walkinin order to induce able - bodied kinematics, or normal walking.

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.

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

«We shot photos of me in a variety of sprinting positions, wearing tight shorts that hugged my thighs but left my prosthetic lower legs completely naked,» he says.

«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.»

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.

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.

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

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

A woman working in a brothel pulls her skirt up to display a prosthetic ivory leg that conceals a double - barrel shotgun.

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.

These cigar - smoking party boys are loving the life of the downsized but also ironically hold a key to Paul's fate, as does a Vietnamese refugee named Ngoc who sports a prosthetic leg below the knee (Hong Chau plays this one - of - a kind character in a way you will not forget, stealing every scene she's in).

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.

Remember the girl in Planet Terror with the prosthetic leg that doubled as an assault weapon?

Jeff Bauman's life story is a devastating and inspiring tale of loss and triumph over adversity: His legs were amputated above the knee after he was wounded in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, but with the aid of prosthetics, he learned to walk again.

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 grouIN 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 grouin love at a cancer support group.

Missing a leg, too, by the time she escapes, she finds refuge — and prosthetic limbs — in the village of Comfort, whose denizens mostly give her space.

Besides, it boasts the best henchman in years in Gazelle (Sofia Boutella), who's like something out of a Matthew Barney fever dream with her prosthetic lower legs, sharpened to deadly knife edges and puncturing tools.

U.S. Paralympic snowboarder and inventor Mike Schultz in his St. Cloud, Minn., office, showing off the prosthetic sports leg he invented in 2009.

Konami Entertainment Europe shared that it is working with a British prosthetic artist to «produce a highly stylized and multi-functional limb for 25 - year - old James Young,» the MGS fan who lost his arm and leg in a train accident.

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

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.

In 2009, a freak accident with a harvester severed both of Oscar's hind legs, and he underwent an operation for prosthetic limbs, designed by Biomedical Engineers from the University College London, making him a pioneer in the science of bionic limbs for animalIn 2009, a freak accident with a harvester severed both of Oscar's hind legs, and he underwent an operation for prosthetic limbs, designed by Biomedical Engineers from the University College London, making him a pioneer in the science of bionic limbs for animalin the science of bionic limbs for animals.

The first surgery was simply to save as much of the cat's legs and skin as possible in the hope of being able to fit her with prosthetics.

Even though Blaze is having great success, he will still be monitored and will undergo physical therapy to ensure his leg can properly function in the prosthetic.

West Coast Brace and Limb in Tampa, FL offered to help the dog by designing two prosthetic legs.

The goal is to develop and build a prosthetic limb for gamer and fan James Young, who lost his arm and leg in an accident.

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 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).

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.

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.

If you're Mass MoCA, you shroud Christoph Büchel's incomplete 2007 «Training Ground for Democracy» in yellow tarps and air your dirty laundry by displaying his list of requested materials for the piece, which included 8 voting booths, piles of old computers, 1,000 feet of barbed wire, 12 grenades, 8 body bags, 4 prosthetic legs, and the fuselage of a 737 airliner.

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 buildinIn 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 buildinin 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.

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.