I have been an above-knee amputee for over 50 years. For the first 30 years, my prosthesis was balsa wood with a simple mechanical knee. I fell a lot, could only walk at one fixed speed ...

As delivered, an above-knee running prosthesis costs about $21,000. At my foundation, we were able to help a young girl who was born without a right tibia. An early childhood clean-up amputation ...

As he started to clean the mud out the socket of the artificial limb, his friend, Malek Sabr, another bilateral above knee amputee, was still trying to get through the obstacle, his running blades ...

PULL IT UP. JIM WILKS IS AN AMPUTEE LIKE THIS. YOU MEAN FINALLY, AFTER 13 SURGERIES, THEY SAID WE CAN’T DO ANY MORE. AND THEY DID THE AMPUTATION ABOVE THE KNEE. A ROUGH VISIT WITH THE DOCTOR WAS ...

However, taking a prosthetic limb through security may take ... Please be aware that longer items (legs for above-knee ...