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Amputee develops cover for prosthetics

Shared by Ana Duarte on 2016-12-06 15:46

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Frederic, a transfemoral amputee, “always wondered why, 40 years after walking on the moon, it was still impossible for me to walk with my everyday prosthesis along a beach with feet in the water.”

Besides his own need, the inventor had the idea for this solution while he was working at an automotive company. With the help of his colleagues, he created a silicone manufacturing process by which he invented a first prototype: a hollow prosthetic cover, durable, realistic-looking which could be using every day and in the water.

Using this device, patients who wear prosthetics can go to beach and swim with no problems.

“This is what is new. I had to convince some manufacturers to guarantee some of their components for saltwater. Otto Bock and Freedom Innovations actually guarantee some of their products for this. This realistic and customized product… Is now accepted and on the way to being considered as a potential standard”, he explained.

This design gave Frederic, in 2011, the National Innovation Prize from the French Ministry of Research and Sciences.

Adapted from: http://bit.ly/2g5D2bJ

More info: http://www.swim-prosthesis.com/
https://youtu.be/CSj0-GRdIFQ

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Frederic Rauch, an amputee born in France, developed Aqualeg, a cover for prosthetics that is suitable for patients with prosthetics for both above knee and below knee prosthetic devices. He then founded his own company.

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