Posted on 08/27/2005 11:41:44 PM PDT by Panerai
Look out, Heather Mills McCartney!
Female amputees are giving the gorgeous former model a run for her money with a new sexy, shapely leg created by a Wakefield man.
Paul Harney has developed the LISA (Lightweight Inconspicuous Shapely Active) leg for amputees who want to wear high heels and don't want unsightly lines on their backsides - often caused by the prosthetic limb's edge.
``What women want is a functional, pretty leg. Women can wear a 2-inch heel with this leg and go barefoot,'' said Harney, owner of the FDR Center for Prosthetics and Orthotics, Inc., in Nashua, N.H.
Olga Vigna, a Russian-born woman living in Belmont, developed a disease at a young age that prevented her left leg from growing. Doctors amputated it when she was 19 so a prosthetic leg would fit better.
Vigna, 32, loves her new LISA leg. She wears it to work and to clubs. ``It's very beautiful and very sexy. I can wear jeans. I can wear a skirt,'' said Vigna, who works at FDR. ``It allows you to adjust your shoe so you can wear sneakers and high heels when you go out.''
``You don't feel sexy when you have a bad prosthesis,'' Vigna said. ``You want to have the same leg like any other person does.''
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Hope these women don't have to go to court....
I assume this is both BK and AK models
BK/AK Below Knee/Above Knee
Were they thinking about San Franciscans?
This cannot be the first time that prostheses for women were designed to present an attractive appearance. Forty years ago in the summer I saw a pretty young woman, in a dress that came to mid knee, standing, waiting for her husband. It was only when I noticed that one foot remained at a rigid ninety degree angle to the calf that I realized it was a prosthesis. My heart went out to her.
This is no different than say, having a glass eye match the other.
Not a pic in sight. How they gonna write an article like that with no pictures? lame
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