Run Like a Cheetah

This week, Lynne will tell you about one determined man who radically changed the face of track and field in the Paralympic Games and the lives of active amputees everywhere. It’s an uplifting tale of ingenuity and perseverance, but of course we were somehow unable to avoid a tiny tangent of murder.  

Sources:

1. Sporting Witness: Why I designed the prosthetic running leg

2. CUSP Conference 2011

3. Inventive Minds: Van Phillips

4. Van Phillips Flex-Foot Prosthetics via Lemelson-MIT

5. Van Phillips via CUSP

6. Innovative Lives: Artificial Parts: Van Phillips by Martha Davidson

7. Mechanics of Oscar Pistorius’s Running Blades via Wikipedia

8. Ossur