Prosthetic foot with custom graphic socket
Prosthetic foot with custom graphic socket
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- Description (Brief)
- This artificial lower limb from 2003 is made of carbon fiber and fiberglass. Van Phillips, the inventor, designed the distinctive Flex-Foot appendage to use a person’s weight shift from leg to leg in walking as a way to store and release energy. The socket is painted with a rain forest motif.
- Object Name
- foot, prosthetic
- Flex-Foot
- foot, artificial
- prosthesis
- date made
- ca 2003
- maker
- Ossur North America
- place made
- United States: California, Aliso Viejo
- Physical Description
- fiberglass; ink; aluminum; rubber (overall material)
- carbon fiber (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 54 cm x 11.1 cm x 23.9 cm; 21 1/4 in x 4 3/8 in x 9 7/16 in
- overall, as stored: 4 7/8 in x 9 1/2 in x 21 3/8 in; 12.3825 cm x 24.13 cm x 54.2925 cm
- ID Number
- 2003.0315.11
- accession number
- 2003.0315
- catalog number
- 2003.0315.11
- Credit Line
- Gift from Ossur North America
- subject
- Disabilities
- Prosthesis
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Health & Medicine
- Disabilities
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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