prosthesis
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"It wasn't so easy to paint back then, but now everything is very different," says Cristian Juarez, a 29-year-old who works with a prosthesis after losing his right leg in an accident 11 years ago.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
He later said he was fortunate to not have a prosthesis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
Elizabeth, 38, from Leven, spotted the prosthesis, which she first thought was a gas canister, on one of her usual walks from Hornsea.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026
She also has a white prosthesis in the place of one leg.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2025
“No matter how good the prosthesis is, if the mind isn’t willing, the leg won’t work. With you I know I don’t have to worry about that.”
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
The most recent work, Berenice Olmedo’s “Amalia,” a motorized sculpture of a leg made from medical prostheses, splints and braces, was created in 2021, a comment on difficulties faced by the disabled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
The centre was set up around 60 years ago by a Belgian Catholic association and has a workshop for producing prostheses, splints and braces.
From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025
Potential uses include providing sensory feedback for prosthetic limbs, delivering artificial inputs for future hearing or vision prostheses, controlling robotic limbs, improving rehabilitation after injury or stroke, and modifying pain perception without medications.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 8, 2025
She described it as a "very unique case" because of the number of prostheses that had to be made without being able to copy any of the patient's fingers.
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2025
She asks him for ideas on how to make money to pay for medicines and prostheses.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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