These past two weeks we have conducted multiple interviews with Mr. Adair, the contacts both Ms. Starling and Mr. Babwah gave us and have reached out to more people regarding our current course of action. Based on the feedback we have received, Ela and I have once again decided to reevaluate how we want to …
Category: Updates
Jan 23
Reducing the costs
One of the main reasons prosthesis are so expensive is because each prosthesis has to be customized. That requires people to go into a doctors office and have measurements and scans done in order to make a prosthetic socket, which is the device that connects the prosthesis to the residual limb. If there was a …
Jan 16
A (slightly) new direction
These past 2 weeks, we discovered that people with AK (above knee) prosthetics have difficulty riding bikes; prosthetic knees don’t bend enough to to support the cycling movement. Not only is biking/cycling one of the best forms of aerobic exercise, many people in LDCs (Less Developed Countries) use bikes. In our AP Human Geography class, …
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