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Incredible moment double amputee learns to walk normally again after having 'revolutionary' surgery that inserts titanium rod into his stumps that allows prosthetic attachments
An Oregon-based surgeon completed the first osseointegration, a surgery that involves inserting a titanium implant into the bone of a patient. This allows for the direct attachment of a prosthetic ...
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'I was dropping fast': A parachute malfunction, fall to the pavement, then a titanium leg
Doctors weren't sure he would walk again but Hughes made a full recovery after surgery that put titanium rods from hip to ankle on his right leg. INDIANAPOLIS -- Daniel Hughes has been a soldier ...