Re: Bionic Leg Revolutionizes Amputees' Lives
Matt Bailey
Description
Collection
Title:
Re: Bionic Leg Revolutionizes Amputees' Lives
Creator:
Matt Bailey
Date:
4/28/2000
Text:
Is this a joke or are there prosthetists out there that are so eager for business
that they will mislead the public?
<Email Address Redacted> wrote:
> Bionic Leg Revolutionizes Amputees' Lives Computer-Controlled Artificial Leg
> System First Time Introduced to the Public; On-Site Demonstration of New
> Technology on Tuesday, May 2 at 10:00 a.m.
>
> OKLAHOMA CITY, April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- After years of scientific research
> and development, cadaver studies and input from thousands of amputees, the
> newly patented Hanger Socket System, ComfortFlex, is now available to
> amputees for the first time. The socket materials have been called smart
> plastic because of its ability to remember the grooves and contours of the
> amputee's residual limb interfacing with the prosthesis. Previously
> unidentified individual muscle groups are now incorporated in this new design
> which allows the amputee to have maximum control and command of their lower
> limb. When the Hanger ComfortFlex is combined with a computerized knee that
> has a built-in microprocesser, the result is truly a bionic
> leg.....................
>
>
that they will mislead the public?
<Email Address Redacted> wrote:
> Bionic Leg Revolutionizes Amputees' Lives Computer-Controlled Artificial Leg
> System First Time Introduced to the Public; On-Site Demonstration of New
> Technology on Tuesday, May 2 at 10:00 a.m.
>
> OKLAHOMA CITY, April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- After years of scientific research
> and development, cadaver studies and input from thousands of amputees, the
> newly patented Hanger Socket System, ComfortFlex, is now available to
> amputees for the first time. The socket materials have been called smart
> plastic because of its ability to remember the grooves and contours of the
> amputee's residual limb interfacing with the prosthesis. Previously
> unidentified individual muscle groups are now incorporated in this new design
> which allows the amputee to have maximum control and command of their lower
> limb. When the Hanger ComfortFlex is combined with a computerized knee that
> has a built-in microprocesser, the result is truly a bionic
> leg.....................
>
>
Citation
Matt Bailey, “Re: Bionic Leg Revolutionizes Amputees' Lives,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 24, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/214185.
