C-leg and world trade center
E, Rene Rodriguez
Description
Collection
Title:
C-leg and world trade center
Creator:
E, Rene Rodriguez
Date:
1/3/2002
Text:
I am a RAK and a physician, I've done my homework learning about all
components of each of my prostheses, and I've been fortunate to have an
outstanding prosthetist who has helped a lot in my education about many
aspects of prosthetics since I became an amputee. Over the years I have
gotten 3 prostheses. I alternate the use of these on a weekly or
b-weekly basis. They all are very comfortable, well fitted prostheses
and the reason to alternate is to maintain my awareness their
differences and to vary to load in some of my useful muscle groups. The
knees on these prostheses are: a C-leg a MAUCH knee and an endolite IP+
and all of them are rather good for walking DOWN many flights of stairs
daily as part of my exercise and practice. If well fitted I see no
advantage to one or the other than the required maintenance of the
components on each kind of knee. Clearly the C-leg is a very good
product, and I like it very much, but for its cost, it does not offer
anything truly superior to an otherwise well fitted prosthesis. The
amputee usually chooses its ambulation speed, and as for running, well,
I have not seen any true AK runners wearing C-legs. I'm glad to read
the outcome of this story about the WTC, but I think any responsible
amputee who pays attention to what he/she needs to learn and/or do to be
comfortably functional, can learn to use very well a PROPERLY FITTED
prosthesis, regardless of the components.
components of each of my prostheses, and I've been fortunate to have an
outstanding prosthetist who has helped a lot in my education about many
aspects of prosthetics since I became an amputee. Over the years I have
gotten 3 prostheses. I alternate the use of these on a weekly or
b-weekly basis. They all are very comfortable, well fitted prostheses
and the reason to alternate is to maintain my awareness their
differences and to vary to load in some of my useful muscle groups. The
knees on these prostheses are: a C-leg a MAUCH knee and an endolite IP+
and all of them are rather good for walking DOWN many flights of stairs
daily as part of my exercise and practice. If well fitted I see no
advantage to one or the other than the required maintenance of the
components on each kind of knee. Clearly the C-leg is a very good
product, and I like it very much, but for its cost, it does not offer
anything truly superior to an otherwise well fitted prosthesis. The
amputee usually chooses its ambulation speed, and as for running, well,
I have not seen any true AK runners wearing C-legs. I'm glad to read
the outcome of this story about the WTC, but I think any responsible
amputee who pays attention to what he/she needs to learn and/or do to be
comfortably functional, can learn to use very well a PROPERLY FITTED
prosthesis, regardless of the components.
Citation
E, Rene Rodriguez, “C-leg and world trade center,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 23, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/218233.
