Sentences with phrase «uses prosthetic legs»

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.

The pair fell in love during a swim meet in San Diego, she was competing for Boise State and he was getting the hang of using his prosthetic legs for the first time.

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April 6, 2017 www.theglobeandmail.com Lego lovers know the colourful little toy bricks have a myriad of uses, from building simple houses to full - scale cars and functioning prosthetic legs.

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

A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb, just by thinking about moving it — all because his unused nerves were preserved during the amputation and rerouted to his thigh where they can be used to communicate with a robotic leg.

He now walks with the use of two prosthetic legs.

The two made some major changes to the prosthetic leg design, but the big game - changer came when Kaiman found out that the Biomedical Library's 3D printers, which include a Formlabs Form 2, a MakerBot Replicator 2, and a Stratasys uPrint SE Plus, can 3D print using different materials, textures, and weights.

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.

Prosthetics: These devices are used to replace a missing leg or portion of a leg that's amputated due to a traumatic injury or illness.

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