Emery Vanderburgh, had her leg amputated and explores disability representation
Emery Vanderburgh co-founded the advocacy group Ampuseek because of the challenges she faced getting funding for a prosthetic leg.
Lauren Wasser, lost her legs to toxic shock syndrome
Brought up in LA, the athletic daughter of two former models, Wasser turned down a basketball scholarship to embark on her own career in fashion. “Growing up, [my body] was something that I thought was untouchable,” she muses. After her amputation, Wasser describes how she had to rebuild herself “from the inside out and really see what life was about – that it was about so much more than just the physical form”.
Haven Shepherd, the US swimmer paralympian who survived a family suicide attempt in early age
“My parents detonated a bomb inside our tiny, thatched roof hut. I was supposed to die that night.” “I don’t remember the explosion. It’s strange to know something so traumatic happened to you that you shouldn’t be alive, but you have no memory of it. Even though it changed the trajectory of my life in the most profound way. One
Pie equino
En medicina, se llama pie equino a una deformidad del pie humano (también llamada tacones invisibles) en la que este se encuentra permanentemente en una posición de flexión plantar, en aducción e inversión, el retropié en varo, con el hueso del tarso calcaneo invertido por lo que el paciente afectado cuando camina apoya la región anterior del pie (marcha de puntillas normalmente se caen) y el talón no entra en contacto con el suelo. La persona con pie equino tiene limitada la flexibilidad para levantar la parte superior del pie hacia la zona anterior de la pierna. Puede estar afectado únicamente un pie o ambos.