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Fashionable Prostheses Trade Realistic Color For Personal Pizazz

Retired Army Capt. Bergan Flannigan, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., says she used to "get a lot of stares" when she wore her prosthetic leg with the metal pipe exposed. "I feel like people don't look as much" with the cover, she says, "which I like." (Courtesy of Create Prosthetics)
Retired Army Capt. Bergan Flannigan, of Plattsburgh, N.Y., says she used to "get a lot of stares" when she wore her prosthetic leg with the metal pipe exposed. "I feel like people don't look as much" with the cover, she says, "which I like." (Courtesy of Create Prosthetics)

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