The reason she lost her leg is because she’s often the first one out to check on the zap apple trees as they are approaching harvest, and one time she was a bit too eager. She’d gone in the middle of the night, without waking anyone else, and ran right into a pack of timberwolves who’d also sensed the signs. That was a long time ago, but she’s still terrified of the everfree forest and wolves/dogs; the only one she can be around without panicking is Winona the fourth.
The “headband” she’s wearing is designed and created by Twilight; it reads the impulses of her brain, allowing her to control her prosthetic leg. It is technically only in the experimental stage, there only being a few protoypes made, but Zap Apple trusts Twilight and asked to be allowed to act as a test-subject for it. She’s gotten quite used to spending afternoons hooked up to different scanners in Twilight’s basement, as her aunt frantically checks to make sure she’s not frying her brain or something.