New legs provide fresh start for Missouri girl
Posted on May 19, 2012 in New balance shoes
CARTHAGE, Mo. (AP) -- Many kids in the Carthage elementary school track meet changed into their running shoes before the competition began. Haven Shepherd changed into her running legs. Shepherd, a third grader at Steadley Elementary School who has been without both feet most of her life, raced two years ago in this meet on regular prosthetic legs but fell during her first race. "She ...
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Community unites to help USU student get new prosthetic leg
Posted on May 11, 2012 in Jordan shoes
A high-tech computerized leg could help a 23-year-old Kaysville woman do something she has never done before: run.
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Future of fashion? 3-D printer produces stylish shoes
Posted on April 28, 2012 in Ballet shoes
With just a click of a button, one can finally print fashion. A company called 3D Systems is getting ready to release an at-home 3D printer that will enable people to design and print products from prosthetic legs to hearing aids to, yes, even high-heeled platforms.
Tags: print, printer, fashion, prosthetic, products
Nike Designed a Shoe For Prosthetic Running Blades [Video]
Posted on February 12, 2012 in Nike running shoes
# shoes With prosthetic limbs designed to look like a human foot, wearing a shoe is no problem. But the unique shape of those carbon fiber prosthetic blades worn by athletes obviously can't accommodate a traditional shoe, so Nike invented a new one . More »
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Nike designer Tobie Hatfield creates special sole for prosthetic blade
Posted on February 10, 2012 in Zappos shoes
Hatfield worked with amputee athlete Sarah Reinertsen on developing the Nike Sole.
Nike and Össur Collaborate on Breakthrough Running Sole for World Record Holder Sarah Reinertsen
Posted on February 04, 2012 in Shoes
Nike is introducing a new sole utilizing state-of-the art design methods and technologies to create a lightweight, durable composite sole that can easily be used with Össur`s Flex-Run prosthetic blade ...
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Terry Reed, that man on President St.
Posted on December 23, 2011 in Keen shoes
Wondering how to help a middle-aged panhandler in prosthetics Dan Rodricks: The thin man who stands on President Street is hard to miss. He wears a blue winter coat and pants that stop at the knees, revealing brown prosthetic limbs that once meant to match his skin tone. Terry Reed, whose forearms are wood-grained plastic and metal, is a well-known panhandler. He's recovering from surgery, above ...
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Franciscan Alliance and prosthetics company help give a young boy a new hand
Posted on July 17, 2011 in Keen shoes
“We’re here for my Hunter’s hand.” Those were the words of Hunter Maerz’s younger sister the day he received his fully functional prosthetic hand.
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Rockport resident appointed to state orthotics and prosthetics board
Posted on May 17, 2011 in Shoes buy online
Gov. Rick Perry reappointed Rebecca Brou of Rockport to the Texas Board of Orthotics and Prosthetics
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Osama bin Laden changed Americans in ways minuscule, monumental
Posted on May 16, 2011 in High heel shoes
Without him, there would probably be no Department of Homeland Security, no Patriot Act, no Quran-burning pastors. Had Osama bin Laden never been born, there would surely be fewer memorials to slain firefighters, less need for prosthetic limbs for young troops, an American public still largely ignorant of the Muslim notion of martyrdom.