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Post by jeffamp on Dec 3, 2014 18:42:26 GMT -7
Hi everyone, I'm curious - if you could have another leg after your walking leg, what would you get? Running, swimming, shower, cycling, etc?
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Post by stonecutter on Dec 4, 2014 10:58:27 GMT -7
Running. I wasn't a big runner when I was a bi-ped but I do kind of miss it now.
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Post by ann58 on Dec 6, 2014 12:01:04 GMT -7
Gosh, I haven't checked in for the longest time...glad to see alot are posting. Rest of forums are pretty dead. Back to the reason I am on here. Jeffamp. I would have a leg made for whatever your favorite hobby is: be it swimming, biking, running, etc.
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Post by jeffamp on Dec 7, 2014 10:00:58 GMT -7
ann58, yea I think that makes a lot of sense! I have seen those cycling legs that clip right in. Those are really cool. I'd also love a swimming leg with a flipper for snorkeling. My sound leg gets really tired when it has to do all the work!
More practically I think a shower leg would be really useful for me. I just balance right now, but it's very precarious. Do you guys have shower legs?
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Post by stonecutter on Dec 8, 2014 8:18:42 GMT -7
No shower leg here. I have a stool for home and when I'm on the road - I sit in the tub while showering.
Is that weird?
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Post by ann58 on Dec 8, 2014 19:53:55 GMT -7
I also use a shower stool.
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Post by Ann on Dec 9, 2014 1:06:29 GMT -7
Washing, showering etc., I personally prefer to remove the legs, but do have some swimming legs which are pretty amazing and let me access swimming pools etc., completely independently.
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Post by cherylm on Dec 9, 2014 1:49:37 GMT -7
I have (believe it or not) three different options for showering. They came to me at different times, for different reasons, but I've hung onto all of them because they all have advantages. My favorite shower aid is my water leg. It's very basic but it lets me manage a number of water-related activities, including showering. Then I have a shower transfer bench. It comes in handy when I can't bear weight on one leg or the other. The disadvantage is that it's a pain to arrange the shower curtain to keep the shower flow inside the tub. And finally I have my "compromise" shower aid...an adjustable stool that can be fully enclosed inside the tub. If I'm feeling unsteady on my feet, but don't need the transfer bench to slide into the tub, this one is fairly simple and pleasant to use. The one thing I would never do is to try and balance on one foot in a wet shower. It's probably just because I'm such a klutz myself, but every time I hear of someone who has been balancing in a shower,it just makes me cringe!
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Post by stonecutter on Dec 9, 2014 7:56:46 GMT -7
...The one thing I would never do is to try and balance on one foot in a wet shower.... I did this for a number of years. We have a shower stall in our en-suite bathroom. Seemed like such a good idea until I lost my balance while shampooing and ended up falling out of it. There were cuts and bruises and really awkward explanations for them at work (some people just don't understand the challenges that an amp faces). Anyway - I did a combination of this and leaning on something (our shower has an extrusion at knee height) for a few more years. Then when I had my revision surgery in 2012, I went out and bought a stool. Been using it ever since.
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Post by cherylm on Dec 10, 2014 2:01:41 GMT -7
Trevor, I do quite a lot of "standing on my good foot and balancing my knee on something on the other side." It can be convenient when I don't want to put on my leg for some simple, stationary activity. But even at my strongest and steadiest I don't think I'd try it in a shower...I'm just about guaranteed to have one of your "crash and bash" episodes within the first week of trying it.
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Post by pelly on Nov 21, 2015 16:19:15 GMT -7
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Post by SteveInMd on Nov 22, 2015 13:54:47 GMT -7
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more legs!
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Post by bassett on Mar 19, 2017 14:52:43 GMT -7
Great thread! I just ordered a shower leg cover. But, once I get fitted and begin using legs is there an option for just getting a leg that will stay on nice and tight and be completely waterproof? No ankle movement or energy return, just something I can put on my BKA limb and balance on resonably well. If not I'll just use a chair. Ordered one yesterday.
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Post by cherylm on Mar 20, 2017 4:55:33 GMT -7
bassett, you might even be able to cobble together some sort of shower-leggish-thing from very-low-end components and whatever sort of test socket they create for you to wear. My first shower leg consisted of a bulky and rather ugly plastic test socket, the connector and pylon from a previous prosthesis, a used suspension sleeve, and a foot that was little more than a two-by-four in a footshell. I contiued to wear my usual liner. The trial socket was left over from producing my prosthesis at the time, so basically I paid for labor and that silly foot. (I actually wanted to just use a "hoof" instead of a foot, but my leg guys kept insisting that I was too much of a klutz for that...personally, I now think that trying to walk on a two-by-four in a footshell was much more challenging than a rubber hoof would have been, but hey....)
Anyway, by the time you're ready for your SECOND prosthesis, you should have more than enough used and second-hand components to get a decent "water activity" leg.
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