"We hope to show that a person with a stroke or an amputee would be able to control an assistive device," Contreras-Vidal says.
The question of metabolic cost was highlighted by the case of Oscar Pistorius, the South African double-amputee sprinter who runs using blade-like prosthetics made of carbon fibre.
She said you may have to amputee my arm.
Triple amputee Marine Mark Ormrod was the inspiration for the Gumpathon, which unfortunately may not meet its fundraising goals.
A disabled lion who was reared by a double amputee zookeeper has formed an unlikely bond with a miniature sausage dog with the pair inseparable ever since the cat was a cub.
Society/Environment: First double amputee qualifiesfor 400-meter Olympic sprint in London. Places fourth.
Quadruple amputee Phillipe Croizon has announced that he'll brave some of the world's most treacherous waters next year as he swims between five continents.
Garwood says there is a critical need for surgeons. He says there are more than 2,000 amputee cases in Haiti as a result of the injuries sustained in the earthquake.
He is a double amputee, having lost both his legs below the knee after a climbing accident in 1982, at the age of 17.
Three American amputee war veterans have climbed to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
Around the world amputee women are getting together and working out what they want in life.
I think for an amputee, happiness, for them, is able to move, to be able to walk.
The amputee says he owes his success to the many kindhearted people that came into his life while he was growing up. We went to meet the mouth and foot painter to find out more.
Based on the data obtained from gait tests, the differences of ground reaction forces and the movements of lower limbs between the sound side and prosthetic side of above knee amputee were analyzed.
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