Sentence examples for leg prosthesis from inspiring English sources

Many amputees who wear a leg prosthesis develop significant skin wounds on their residual limb.

Direct attachment of an upper leg prosthesis to the skeletal system by a percutaneous implant is an alternative solution to the traditional socket fixation.

BAT found the late Sandy Amoros, an outfielder from the 50's, in a one-room flat in Tampa without the money for the leg prosthesis the once-swift athlete needed.

As published in the 2012 Proceedings of the Royal Society, the BiOM Ankle System has been clinically shown to be the first leg prosthesis to achieve biomechanical and physiological normalization, allowing persons with leg amputation to walk with normal levels of speed and metabolism as if their legs were biological once again.

We already see the early days of this with questions around leg prosthesis and whether they provide runners with increased speed compared to that of an average human.

One example, developed in collaboration with Professor Gill Pratt of Olin College in Needham, Massachusetts, is a leg prosthesis with a computer-controlled knee.

To investigate walking ability and quality of life of osseointegrated leg prostheses compared with socket prostheses.

Honf also conceptualised bamboo leg prostheses for those who lost limbs after an earthquake hit Yogyakarta in 2006.

This basic understanding of these relationships between metabolic demands and biomechanical tasks can provide important information for design and control of biomimetic assistive devices such as leg prostheses and orthoses.

She lost both legs, and her right-leg prosthesis alone costs $100,000.

Five locomotion conditions were evaluated: (1) wheelchair propulsion, (2) walking with short-leg prostheses (stubbies) and a walker, (3) long-leg prostheses and a walker, (4) long-leg prostheses without knee mechanism and axillary crutches, and (5) long-leg prostheses with right polycentric knee and left locked knee and axillary crutches.