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by Karen Henry
February 1, 2013
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Early in 2007, shortly after I began working at The O&P EDGE , a U.S. veteran who had sustained a traumatic shoulder disarticulation amputation during the war in Iraq contacted me. He asked where he could get a permanent prosthesis—one that he could live, work, play, and sleep in; would provide full range of motion at the shoulder, elbow, and wrist; have five articulating digits; would look like his natural hand and arm; and be controlled by his thoughts.

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