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Motorcycle Accident Man Tests Bionic Leg in Chicago Building Climb

October 31, 2012 | Filed under: Blog

Zac Vawter will be testing a groundbreaking bionic leg on Sunday that is designed to be controlled by his thoughts. He became the perfect candidate after he had his leg amputated after a motorcycle accident thus needing a lawyer and received a specialized surgery. He will now show the public how the leg works when he attempts to climb 103 flights of stairs at the Chicago Willis Towers – one of the tallest skyscrapers in the world.

an amputee

an amputee (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

At the public debut Vawter will demonstrate how the bionic leg responds to electrical impulses from the muscles in his hamstrings. All he has to do is think “climb stairs” and the electronic gears, belts and chains should synchronize movements on the prosthetic that imitates the functions of a real leg. His goal is to complete the climb of the Chicago building in about an hour or so. His expected time is longer that it would have taken him prior to his amputation but in less time than it would take him using his normal prosthetic leg – or, as he calls it, according to KATV, his “dumb” leg.

During the test, a group of researchers will be studying the prosthetic legs’ performance. When Vawter goes back home to his Washington, the leg will stay in Chicago. It expected to hit the market years from now. For the time being researchers will perform tweaks and adjustments to improve the leg’s performance and safety.

“Somewhere down the road, it will benefit me and I hope it will benefit a lot of other people as well,” Vawter told the television studio in reference to the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.

While the technology for bionic – or thought-controlled – prosthetic arms have been available for a few years, due largely in part to pioneering work done at the Rehabilitation Institute an emergence in focus to lower section of the body has now began to gain momentum with the RIC taking the lead.

Research shows that leg amputees are beginning to outnumber people who have lost arms and hands. Chicago researchers are doing their best to refine the product, which comes with inherent safety risks. If a bionic hand fails the risk is minimal, but if a bionic leg fails, a person can cause great personal injury to themselves such as falling down the stairs or down a mountain.

Compared to the other prosthetic legs, Vawter likes the bionic leg better. It is more fluid and responsive. And as an engineer himself, he finds it intriguing to learn about the mechanics that go behind creating a technologically advanced prosthetic.

 

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