Re: To C-leg Users: Your response to recent studiesPosted by Lori on September 07, 19104 at 14:48:02: In Reply to: To C-leg Users: Your response to recent studies posted by Casey on September 07, 19104 at 12:04:21: : I would like the opinions of C-leg users to the following article about recent studies involving the C-leg. : http://www.biomech.com/db_area/archives/2004/0407.op2.bio.shtml I would like to know how long the cleg users had been using a cleg vs. a standard prosthesis. I found that it took me a solid 6-8 months to feel truly confident with the cleg, let go of some of the anxiety I had learned to have with my standard prostheses and not work so hard at walking. After 25 years of the standard type and the 5 compensatory injury surgeries I have had, I still occasionally find myself working harder at walking than I would need to. I have to remind myself to relax and let the leg do the work. I have counted at least a dozen times in the 14 months I have had the cleg where I would probably have fallen with a standard prosthesis, but didn't because the cleg did what it was supposed to do. Lori
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