C-Leg offers hope for those missing knee

C-Leg offers hope for those missing knee
By Ed Koch

LAS VEGAS SUN

Alicia Karau is one of 3,500 U.S. residents and 5,000 above-the-knee amputees worldwide who are benefitting from C-Leg technology.

C-Leg, a computer-controlled prostheses made of titanium and carbon, is a product of the Minneapolis-based Otto Bock HealthCare company that has been manufacturing prosthetic devices since it was founded in Germany in 1919.

The C-Leg, introduced in 1999, is described by the company as "a quantum leap" in the improvement of lower limb prosthetics. The "C" stands for computer.

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The company says, to date, 68 soldiers wounded in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have been fitted for C-Legs.

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