2023-04-19 15:09:30
An orthoprosthetist has decided to offer people with hearing aids to dress their prosthesis in different patterns to “break the codes”. We followed Lia, 2 and a half years old, impatient to discover her prosthesis.
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The Mag of Health – France 5
Lia and her parents are coming today for an eagerly awaited date. Lia is 2 and a half years old, she was born with a foot agenesis left, that is, her foot did not develop during pregnancy. To walk, she needs a prosthesis which is renewed regularly.
“We do it regarding every three months because Lia’s leg is growing and the gap between the ground and the end of her leg is also growing. We used to be 3cm and now we have 4”explains Marion Merlin, orthoprosthetist at the Hopale Foundation (62).
A catalog of 300 patterns
With each new prosthesis, a new decor. The marine motifs amaze the little girl. “For us, it’s like an accessory now. At the beginning, we tended to do skin color so that it wouldn’t show and then hide, but now why not decorate it and make sure Lia likes it”says Laura Micoud, the mother of the little girl.
It was in Roubaix, in an artist’s studio, that Simon Colin developed this original idea. Orthodontist training, he wanted to offer an alternative to the traditional imitation of skin. It provides patients with a catalog of 300 pattern references. Tribal, robotic, graphic, fun… there’s something for everyone.
Support for people with disabilities
“The prosthesis is not attractive, it has a gloomy side, which is not very glamorous, not very fun. It was important for me to design an object which is really part of the everyday life of the person”says Simon Colin, founder of U-Exist.
This personalized dressing allows the patient to assume his disability and claim it in the eyes of others.
Patterns that catch the eye and empathy
“We realized that by really putting color, it catches the eye and people were a little more open-minded, asked us a lot more questions. It’s magic, every time we she discovers the prosthesis, she is smiling and we are also smiling to see her happy”, says Alexandre Micoud, Lia’s father.
The decoration of the prosthesis is free when it is part of the catalog, and costs around fifty euros when it is personalized.
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