Young boy runs with help from prosthetics

Cameron Lutges is a seven-year-old boy who had his legs amputated above the knee when he was only 10 months old.  At the age of 1 he was given his first pair of prosthetics, and ever since then he has been fitted with various legs every year to support his balance.  These prosthetics worked well in the aspect of balance and walking but they didn’t provide the amount of mobility he desired for his running adventures.  But on Monday, he received prosthetics which changed all of that.  Prosthetist Michael Davidson and his team at the Loma Linda University Medical Center Orthotics and Prosthetics Department designed and built the running legs, which gives Cameron more flexibility and spring than ever before. The cost of the limbs was underwritten by the Challenged Athletes’ Foundation, a San Diego-based non-profit based company which helps people with physical disabilities pursue active lifestyles.

I would love to do this kind of work. I would love to help people resume (or start like in the case of Cameron) their active lifestyles and design prosthetics for them which feel and act like the real thing or act even better than their old limbs.  

http://www.the-signal.com/news/article/12335/