LEGS - LeTourneau University Empowering Global Solutions

Sub-Indian Continent

A technology transfer workshop was also held in Savar, Bangladesh in the summer of 2009. The LEGS team performed the workshop at the Center for the Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed (CRP), but was hosted by Memorial Christian Hospital of Bangladesh (MCH). The LEGS team has had a relationship with MCH for four years. MCH personnel have worked towards improving the lives of amputees in rural Bangladesh for decades. The CRP hosted the workshop for several days in July of 2009, and there were 15 different individuals from four different entities that did not include MCH. These people consisted of local clinicians, prosthetists, and other NGO officials. Besides demonstrating the manufacturing a LEGS knee for local participants, the LEGS team repaired prosthetic legs and did outcomes testing on ten individuals who had been previously fitted with the LEGS M1 knee. Most of the repairs were minimal, which serves as a testament to the durability of the knee. In addition, the patients continued to express satisfaction with their prostheses.