Student-Designed Prosthetic Foot Fits Comfortably in High Heels
From: Medical Design Technology - 05/26/2016

After losing a leg to injury or disease, women adjusting to life with a
prosthetic limb face the same challenges as men, with perhaps one added
complication: how to wear high-heels?

A team of Johns Hopkins University students, working with a Johns Hopkins
physician and outside prosthetics experts, has developed an early version of
a potential solution. Called the "Prominence," it would be the first
prosthetic foot on the market that is not custom made that adapts to popular
fashion for heels up to 4 inches high.

Read the entire article at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2016/05/student-designed-prosthetic-foot-fits-comfortably-high-heels

Links:
Johns Hopkins Students Design Prosthetic Fit for High Heels
http://releases.jhu.edu/2016/05/25/johns-hopkins-students-design-prosthetic-fit-for-high-heels

Whiting School of Engineering
http://engineering.jhu.edu

Johns Hopkins Students Design Prosthetic Foot for High-Heel Use
http://www.rehabpub.com/2016/05/johns-hopkins-students-design-prosthetic-foot-high-heel-use

Johns Hopkins students create high-heeled prosthetic
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/johns-hopkins-students-create-high-heeled-prosthetic/2016/08/09/a6cde934-55a8-11e6-b7de-dfe509430c39_story.html

Students Design Prosthetic Fit for High Heels
http://www.medicaldesignbriefs.com/component/content/article/mdb/news/24874

Johns Hopkins college students create excessive-heeled prosthetic
http://health.truebreakingnews.com/?p=24335