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• Oscar Pistorius Has An Unfair Advantage (Again)

  
  Run to Win — Authority: 413
  You may recall a couple years ago when Oscar Pistorius was banned by the IAAF from competing because they felt that his prosthetics gave him an unfair advantage over people that still had both of their legs. This news was quite a sensation, since there seemed (at the time) to be a very good chance that Oscar would ...
  3 days ago

• Researchers: Prosthetic legs give Pistorius unfair advantage

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 481
  From the New York Times and AP:A new study published today in The Journal of Applied Physiology concludes that prosthetic legs worn by double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius give him an unfair advantage over able-bodied runners.Researchers said Pistorius’s blades allow him to turn over his strides more quickly and ...
  5 days ago

• Scientist Smackdown: Are a Sprinter’s Prostethic Legs an Unfair Advantage?

  
  80beats — Authority: 645
  If  you read this blog last week, you might have seen us cover a study suggesting that South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius ought to be allowed to compete in the same track and field events as everyone else because his prosthetic legs confer no advantage over a sprinter with biological legs. But if you saw a ...
  5 days ago

• Recommended Reading for November 18

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  Should Disabled Characters Only Be Played By Disabled Actors? I honestly think this is a difficult call. On the one hand the whole point of acting is to take on a personality of someone that isn’t you, hence the point of having straight actors play characters who are gay and vice versa. But there seems to be a ...
  5 days ago

• Normal Was Never Cool: Inception of Perception [Aimee Mullins]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 542
              Last year I met a beautiful five-year-old child, who had been born with neurofibramatosis (NF), causing her left leg to have extremely brittle bones. Read more here: Normal Was Never Cool: Inception of Perception [Aimee Mullins]
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• Normal Was Never Cool: Inception of Perception [Aimee Mullins]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 892
  Last year I met a beautiful five-year-old child, who had been born with neurofibramatosis (NF), causing her left leg to have extremely brittle bones. For nearly the first year of her life, her...
  1 week ago

• Normal Was Never Cool: Inception of Perception [Aimee Mullins]

  
  RSS fabriek — Authority: 167
  Last year I met a beautiful five-year-old child, who had been born with neurofibramatosis (NF), causing her left leg to have extremely brittle bones. For nearly the first year of her life, her parents and doctors were unaware of the NF, and the brittleness had contributed to multiple bone fractures of the lower leg, ...
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• Racing on Carbon Fiber Legs: How Abled Should We Be? [Aimee Mullins]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 892
  One Olympic swimmer has a D-cup breast size. From a physiological standpoint, shes at a disadvantage to a swimmer whos an A-cup. If she amputated her breasts to become more streamlined, would we...
  1 week ago

• Is Choosing a Prosthesis So Different than Picking a Pair of Glasses? [Aimee Mullins]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 542
            I think technology has evolved enough to let us be earnest about the fact that a consumer of a prosthetic is the same consumer buying an iPod or glasses or a couch for their house. You want options Read more: Is Choosing a Prosthesis So Different than Picking a Pair of Glasses? [Aimee Mullins]
  2 weeks ago

• Is Choosing a Prosthesis So Different than Picking a Pair of Glasses? [Aimee Mullins]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 892
  I think technology has evolved enough to let us be earnest about the fact that a consumer of a prosthetic is the same consumer buying an iPod or glasses or a couch for their house. You want options....
  2 weeks ago

• Guest Post: Top 10 Innovations at TEDMED

  
  Singularity Hub — Authority: 587
  This is a guest post written by Alexandra Carmichael . She is a co-founder of CureTogether , a Health 2.0 company that brings patients with hundreds of conditions together in overlapping data communities. Alexandra is currently an advisor on the Biotech/Medical Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, a guest blogger at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Freedom Leg Looks About 1,000,000x Better than Crutches [This Cyborg Life]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 542
      Crutches. In a thousand years, their design hasn’t fundamentally changed More here: Freedom Leg Looks About 1,000,000x Better than Crutches [This Cyborg Life]
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• Freedom Leg Looks About 1,000,000x Better than Crutches [This Cyborg Life]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 892
  Crutches. In a thousand years, their design hasnt fundamentally changed. And for something as minor as a sprained ankle or broken foot, the Freedom Leg looks like a welcome alternative. A light,...
  2 weeks ago

• Freedom Leg Looks About 1,000,000x Better than Crutches [This Cyborg Life]

  
  RSS fabriek — Authority: 167
  Crutches. In a thousand years, their design hasn’t fundamentally changed. And for something as minor as a sprained ankle or broken foot, the Freedom Leg looks like a welcome alternative. A light, 2.5lb exoskeleton, the Freedom Leg moves all of your body weight from your injured foot to the prosthesis frame ...
  2 weeks ago

• Prosthetic Legs Aren’t Better Than the Real Thing… Yet

  
  80beats — Authority: 645
  South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius raised a ruckus last summer when the he wanted to qualify for the Beijing Olympics, thanks to the J-shaped carbon fiber blades that the double-amputee uses to run. Pistorius didn’t get to run in last summer’s games, but now an MIT team has released a study declaring that he ...
  2 weeks ago

• SmartHand Gives Feeling to Prosthetics

  
  DeviceTalk — Authority: 127
  With funding from the European Union, researchers have developed an artificial hand that allows amputees to feel objects that they’re holding as well as pressure on the hand. The SmartHand has sensors that detect tactile information, which makes the product different from other prosthetic hands, according to Fredrik ...
  2 weeks ago

• Military Medical Technologies Month in November – The Future of Medicine Is Integrated Healthcare

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  The US military is making November a target month for awareness and education on what breakthroughs are happening in medicine and how it will affect not only their lives, but families as well.  Integration – they get it.   This is a great effort and we need this for non military US citizens too.   ...
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• The Smart Hand – One That Can Feel

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 514
  This is a prototype, but the fact that nerve endings can be connected to a device is amazing to connect with signals from the brain.  BD    London, England (CNN) -- Researchers are working on a breakthrough in artificial limb technology -- a prosthetic hand that can actually feel. The SmartHand ...
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• Toddler Gets a Telescoping, Prosthetic Arm Bone That Grows With Him

  
  80beats — Authority: 645
  When 3-year-old Mark Blinder developed pain in his right arm, doctors diagnosed him with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare bone tumor . Chemotherapy wasn’t working and radiation would have destroyed the growth plates in his bones. So instead of amputating the arm, doctors tried an experimental approach–implanting ...
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• Transhuman equality? Athletes with a prosthesis do not have an unfair advantage

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 604
  Remember all the fuss last year about Oscar ‘Bladerunner’ Pistorius, the amputee athlete who was banned from competing against able-bodied runners in the Olympics because the authorities were concerned that his prosthetics might give him an unfair advantage? Well, it turns out that the authorities guessed ...
  2 weeks ago

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