Technology helps with prosthetics
Technology and medicine meet with new bionic legs:
The C-Leg prosthetic is helping to blur the line between man and machine. The $40,000 lithium-ion (30 hours of juice) powered C-Leg has a “computer chip” in the knee which reads how fast the person is walking and swings the leg (via hydraulics) for them. The knees read the person’s gait speed, weight distribution over the leg, and the pitch of the surface at a rate of 50 times a second making constant, automatic adjustments to the legs making stairs, curbs, or hills much easier to plod than with previous devices.
They keep making new advances all of the time.
I HAVE HAD A C-LEG FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS IT IS AWESOME. IT IS REALLY WORTH THE MONEY AND TIME TO GET A GOOD FIT. YANKE BIONICS IN AKRON OHIO HAS BEEN WONDERFUL I RECOMEND THEM TO ANYONE. THEY REALLY ARE A FAMILY AND WORK VERY HARD TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS PERFECT FOR YOU.
First, the foot, now the knew can be devised to calculate the speed of walking or running. Technology is really moving forward with the pace of light. Unbelievable.
