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Amputee puts his best (bionic) foot forward ...with a little help from NewLaw.

04TH OF MARCH

Not so long ago, the idea of people being fitted with bionic prosthetic feet would have been confined to the realms of science fiction, but they are now being offered to amputees in the UK for the first time.

Amputee puts his best (bionic) foot forward ...with a little help from NewLaw.

Not so long ago, the idea of people being fitted with bionic prosthetic feet would have been confined to the realms of science fiction, but they are now being offered to amputees in the UK for the first time. Even though he lost his leg in a motorcycle accident in 2009, Jozef Metelka swore that it wouldn’t stop him fulfilling his sporting dreams. The selfconfessed adrenaline junkie from Oxford admits, “The accident turned my world upside down but as soon as I could get
out of hospital I was back in the gym and trying to exercise as I was doing before.