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
The participants used the prosthesis in their daily lives to read books, food labels and subway signs.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2025
“We usually don’t fit them with a preparatory prosthesis for about six months.”
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
“When I didn't have prostheses, I had to move around in a wheelchair. I discovered how inaccessible and unsuited Kyiv was for wheelchair users, even though it’s the capital city,” he says.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2024
The prostheses can also be given the ability to handle objects with the same dexterity as a human hand.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
She works for free, from dawn until late at night, seven days a week, to obtain money for food, units of blood, medicine, prostheses, and a scrap of land to build a permanent shelter.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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