Fair Insurance For Amputees

Out of the U.S. population of 332 million, 2.1 million are amputees. Of those, 65% are leg amputees. My focus in this article is leg amputees. The traditional prosthetic legs I grew up with were purely mechanical and required the knee to be perfectly straight as the heel comes forward and begins to press down on the ground in front of you to lock. But if the heel comes down on an extension cord, a crack in the sidewalk or a child’s marble, the knee is not straight when pressure is put on it, so it does not lock and it collapses rapidly and you fall.