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No hands

It's been more than a year since a devastating accident in Daviess County left one man with no hands.Though he's had to relearn how to live everyday life, he and his family are recuperating.
Jason Koger and his wife Jenny were busy with a toddler and a newborn who had just started sleeping through the night. Then in March 2008, Jason was electrocuted by a down powerline.

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Around the world with Winter's fave CPO

Living with out a limb understandably has it`s challenges. Finding a prosthetic that works doesn`t come easy, and sometimes finding motivation is even harder. But today Hangar Prosthetics brought in two experts in both topics to help amputees in their recovery. Michelle Vollmuth was helped by one. Her below the knee prosthetic has been rubbing her the wrong way, causing pain to what is left of her right leg. She came into Hangar Prosthetics hoping that world renowned prosthetist Kevin Carroll could help her out, and he did. "We`re going to build a new socket and a new fit, and then it will work a little bit better," Vollmuth says, "It won`t have the wear and tear that it has over the last four years." One of the many solutions Carroll came up with during his visit to Bismarck. He met with more than 20 clients in just one day, giving them a second opinion on what can be done to make their prosthetics work best for them. Kevin travels all over the world, fitting and adjusting prosthetics....

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"Sunshine"

For Woodrow “Woody” Petersen, spending Tuesdays with amputees at Ingalls Memorial Hospital’s Center for Rehabilitative Medicine in Harvey, Ill., is the latest ministry in a lifetime of volunteering. Petersen, a Lutheran for all of his 91 years, describes himself as having always been “outgoing and churchgoing.”

Woodrow Petersen, a double amputee, volunteers at a Chicago rehab center where he talks with patients.

Now a double amputee, Petersen visits with other people at Ingalls who have lost limbs. He lost one leg in an accident in 2002, and the other, later, to a staph infection.

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Amputee Basketball

Amputees are to have a chance to show their skills on the basketball court and raise awareness when the AmpuTeam Spartans take on the Crittenton Hospital All Stars on Thursday at Lutheran High School Northwest, 1000 Bagley Drive.
The Spartans are a team of lower-limb amputees who are all part of the Wright & Filippis AmpuTeam Program, which helps amputees reach their functional goals. Proceeds are to benefit Crittenton Charities and the Filippis FoundationSM.

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FBI & O&P

BYRAM, Miss. -- FBI agents seized documents and possible evidence Tuesday from Smuthers Prosthetics & Orthotics in Byram, but federal officials wouldn’t say why.

A search was executed at the business at 114 Bridgeton Plaza as part of an ongoing investigation, FBI officials said.FBI officials would not say what items were taken or what initiated the search.

Hanger replaces Gevity on the SmallCap 600

Standard & Poor's Index Services said late Thursday that it will take Gevity HR Inc. off its SmallCap 600 index and replace it with Hanger Orthopedic Group Inc. on a date to be announced.

Gevity, a human resource services company, agreed in March to be taken private by TriNet Group Inc. for $4 per share. Based on the company's outstanding shares as of Oct. 31, the deal is worth about $98.8 million.

The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter pending shareholder approval.

Hanger runs rehabilitation centers for patients with braces or prosthetics.

American Amputees Age 5-25 Are Invited to Germany in 2010

Following inspiring examples from the United States and Canada, INVAFIT21 provides sports (swimming,Yoga, exercising, gymnastics, Aqua-Fitness and more), also camps, workshops and social meets for kids, teens and young adults with amputations or dysmelia from 5 to 25.

INVAFIT21 operates Europe-wide meanwhile, and we'll held Europe's first youth amputee and dysmelia games "INVAFIT21 Games Dresden 2010" next year in Germany. We invited more than 80 participants from all over Europe. Also we'd like to have applicants from the United States with us, and we're still in search for contacts.

System analysis enhances artificial limb design

Tom Shelley reports on a mechanical coupling that dramatically improves the lives of leg amputeesMedical technology company, Blatchford, has developed an artificial ankle joint that uses an adjustable hydraulic damping device to restore much of the lower limbs natural movements.

The design approach was based on the analysis of the combined leg-ankle-foot system, rather than the requirement of each individual component part which then need to be integrated together. The philosophy has brought great benefit to both the company and the individuals that have use it.

It demonstrates the benefit that a design based on complete mechanical system analysis can bring. In this case, the resulting 'Endolite' has moved to the front of a market already occupied by several hundred competitive products. It has rapidly gained popularity in the US since its release last October with many veterans of the Iraq and Afghan wars regaining much in the way of mobility.

As soon as we arrived at its headquarters in Basingstoke, technical director Professor Saeed Zahedi introduced us to Nigel Kingston. Kingston was standing on a slight slope at the entrance of the building and commented: "You quickly realise how many uneven surfaces there are when you become an amputee."

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Prince Harry comes to the Manhattan VA

On May 29, a Friday, the prince will visit the World Trade Center site and participate in the official naming of the British Memorial Garden at Hanover Square in Lower Manhattan. The garden, designed by Isabel and Julian Bannerman, honors victims of 9/11. The prince will also tour a prosthetics lab at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Manhattan, learn about the hospital’s post-traumatic stress disorder treatment, and meet American veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.