Amputee To Cycle Across US

When 60 able-bodied bicyclists depart from San Francisco, California, on a 3,800-mile trip across America, a below-knee amputee will be with them.

Daniel Sheret, 40, Wilmington, North Carolina, is currently training for the 52-day tour, "America by Bicycle." The riders plan to leave from San Francisco, California June 7 and arrive July 29 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

The cross-country trip with America by Bicycle is intended to raise awareness about the Ertl surgical procedure and The Barr Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving lives of amputees worldwide, Sheret said.

The Barr Foundation, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, provides funds to purchase prosthetic limbs for amputees who cannot otherwise afford them. According to Sheret, "Two thousand five hundred people face amputee surgery every week. It is our goal to bring the hope and awareness that when someone is faced with this challenge, life is not over. It is only just beginning!"

Two years after an accident in early 2000, Sheret met with William Ertl, MD, and underwent the Ertl osteomyoplastic lower-extremity amputation reconstruction technique. The surgical technique was developed in 1920 by Ertl's grandfather, Professor Janos Ertl Sr., MD, in Hungary, Sheret noted. Ertl developed the procedure in order to return a high number of World War I amputees to the work force. Post-war amputees had significant problems with pain and difficulty with prosthetic wear. Through clinical observations and using regenerative surgical principles, Janos Ertl sought to establish a pain-free residual limb that would actively participate in ambulation. The procedure is now carried out by his grandsons, Janos Ertl, MD, of Kaiser, Sacramento, California, and William Ertl, MD, of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City.

(Editor's note: See Daniel Sheret's story, " Amputation: The First Year " in the March 2003 issue of The O&P EDGE.)

For more information about Sheret's trip, visit www.ampu-cycle.com .

For more information about the Barr Foundation, visit www.oandp.com/barr .

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