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TRI 4 – Arm impairments, including paralysis, amputation or other impairment in one or both arms. Use a conventional bicycle and may use braces, prosthesis or slings on the cycling and/or running stage. TRI 5 – Moderate leg impairment, including below knee amputation. Use a conventional bicycle and may run with brace or prosthesis.
Paralysis of the hip flexors – if the hip flexors are weak, it is more difficult to flex the knee in pre-swing. [36]: 221 [37]: 154 [38] Paralysis of the hip extensors – the hip extensors help control of the knee against unwanted flexion when walking between loading response and mid-stance. [36]: 216–17 [37]: 45–46 [38]
By the evening, one leg was paralyzed, and the other had become weak. [4]: 10–11 [6] August 12: Both legs were paralyzed. His temperature was 102 °F (39 °C). Pain shot through his legs, feet and back. [1]: 51, 54 Bennet suggested a consultation with Dr. William W. Keen, an eminent retired neurosurgeon vacationing nearby. [6]
The braces she wore on her legs dug wounds into her skin that she couldn’t feel because of her paralysis. She finished her eighth-grade year and entered high school needing a knee scooter to walk.
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2 "bladerunners" using this sort of prosthetic foot. CGI image. The Flex-Foot Cheetah is a prosthetic human foot replacement developed by biomedical engineer Van Phillips, who had lost a leg below the knee at age 21; the deficiencies of existing prostheses led him to invent this new prosthesis.