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Iron Man

HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) - paralyzed for the past 20 years, former Israeli paratrooper Radi Kaiof now walks down the street with a dim mechanical hum. That is the sound of an electronic exoskeleton moving the 41-year-old's legs and propelling him forward -- with a proud expression on his face -- as passersby stare in surprise.

"I never dreamed I would walk again. After I was wounded, I forgot what it's like," said Kaiof, who was injured while serving in the Israeli military in 1988.

"Only when standing up can I feel how tall I really am and speak to people eye to eye, not from below."

The device, called ReWalk, is the brainchild of engineer Amit Goffer, founder of Argo Medical Technologies, a small Israeli high-tech company...READ MORE

The product, slated for commercial sale in 2010, will cost as much as the more sophisticated wheelchairs on the market, which sell for about $20,000, the company said.

The ReWalk is now in clinical trials in Tel Aviv's Sheba Medical Centre and Goffer said it will soon be used in trials at the Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute in Pennsylvania.

Iron Man.

The movie grossed over 300 million dollars.
300 million means A LOT of people saw that movie.

You can piggyback ALL OVER THAT!

Watch ReWalk on YouTube.

Dr. Rhonda Turner does it again!

Houston, Texas,   August 2008 - The Prosthetic Center today announced that it has once again been named as one of the fastest growing women's businesses in Houston by the Houston Business Journal.  In an awards luncheon on Friday August 22, 2008 the Houston Business Community recognized women entrepreneurs for their successes.

Skydiver

Skydiver Scott Listemann finally has both feet on the ground again.

The Poughkeepsie man, who lost his prosthetic left leg during a June jump upstate, received a replacement this week, and the new limb has already survived its first plunge.

"I was real nervous about that, but I made extra precautions," Listemann said with a laugh two days after the maiden voyage for his $12,000 leg.

"I made real sure the fit was satisfactory."

The original prosthetic was never recovered despite Listemann's best efforts to track it down.

He posted signs around the Blue Sky Ranch, a skydiving operation in upstate Gardiner, asking folks to keep an eye out for his leg, but the limb had just vanished into thin air - or maybe the Wallkill River - during the June 14 jump.

Listemann said the leg popped off once he pulled the rip cord on his parachute, maybe because of sweat on his stump. The veteran skydiver said he'd jumped before with the prosthetic and never had a misstep.

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Scheck & Siress Works That Web 2.0

Scheck It Out...

David Rotter, CP - Scheck blogger.

Love it.

One question.  David - why aren't your credentials (CP) listed?

David Puckett is a certified, licensed prosthetist/orthotist and a CNN.com Hero

No pet peeve today!
CNN online has a CNN Heroes feature.

Today's CNN hero?
David Puckett, CPO/LPO of Georgia

• David Puckett's nonprofit provides free artificial limbs, braces and care
  
• Since November 2000 the organization has helped hundreds in southeastern Mexico
  
• Puckett's organization crafts the braces and artificial limbs from recycled ones

My hero?
CNN for listing his credentials correctly and spelling them correctly!

"...Morales isn't the only person in southeastern Mexico who credits Puckett with changing his life. Since November 2000, the certified, licensed prosthetist/orthotist from Savannah, Georgia, has been providing artificial limbs, orthopedic braces and ongoing care to hundreds in need in the communities of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and Chiapas -- free of charge..."

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Heigh Ho Silver!

BOXFORD - Five months ago, wounded military veterans began arriving at a picturesque farm amid Boxford's rolling hills where they ride horses as part of an innovative therapy program.

On Monday, U.S. Rep. John F. Tierney toured the Windrush Farms Therapeutic Equitation Facility and visited with participants in the North American Riding for the Handicapped Association's (NARHA) Horses for Heroes (H4H) program.

The H4H program offers equine therapy treatment to veterans with disabilities across the country. A pilot program started at Windrush Farm in May 2007 has been in operation since March.

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Flipperectomy

CAPE PANWA: An immature Olive Ridley sea turtle whose badly infected front left flipper had to be amputated by veterinarians at the Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC) in early June is recovering well at the center, where it is eating well on a diet of fish and squid.

Named Hope by members of the Mai Khao Sea Turtle Foundation that rescued the turtle, the 13-kilogram turtle is thought to be about 10 years old. Its injuries are likely the result of an encounter with fishing equipment.

Whether or not Hope is a male or female has yet to be determined. Gender classification in the species is usually only reliable when they reach maturity at about 15 - 20 years of age, at which time the tails of males begin to grow longer than those of their female counterparts.

PMBC veterinarian Sontaya Manawattana said he suspects Hope is a female, but that it is still too early to say for sure.

Found washed up on Mai Khao Beach last month, Hope is having trouble relearning how to swim with just three flippers.

Now that's a wooden leg.

Eames-inspired prosthetic leg by Joanna Hawley.

Another day, another news story about Bionics...are you piggybacking?

Nice video. Thumbs up.

It's not a prosthetic.  Thumbs down.

It's a prosthesis.

How do you say C-Leg in Romanian?

I tried looking it up.
Babel Fish was no help.

Otto Bock enters the Romanian Medical Products Market

German Otto Bock, the global leader on the market of medical products for disabled persons, entered the Romanian market and targets medium-term business worth €4 million.

"In three to five years, the Otto Bock business in Romania could amount to €4-5 million, given the market potential and the evolution on other Eastern European markets, where the company has opened branches," Otto Bock Romania's General Manager, Ionut Savescu, told Business Standard.

For 2008, the company estimates €1.5 million worth of business, as the level of state subsidies for medical devices is low in Romania. The maximum level of subsidies provided by the National House for Health Insurance (CNAS) is €800, while a modern prosthesis costs €4,500-5,000.