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sit with the bucket leg, because there is so much of the rigid plastic around you, it would hurt your back,” she said. “This is wonderful—and so much lighter.”
Horne expects the BADER clinic will become another local resource for patients with limb loss who want to improve their mobility outcomes. He already works with UD’s Department of Physical Therapy, which has a monthly amputee clinic to help patients who need an objective measure of their prosthetic function.
“This is a paradigm shift,” Horne said. “It just changes your thought process to see something dramati- cally shift that much."
A new "bikini hip" prosthesis is made for Ashly Ash with the help of Oklahoma City prosthetist Jay Martin and Independence Prosthetics-Orthotics in Newark, Delaware. The company is collaborating with the BADER Consortium to develop the new BADER Clinic. The clinic's goal is to help civilian patients with limb loss to
reach their highest level of mobility.
Ashly Ash prepares
to test her new bikini
hip prosthesis at UD's Health Sciences Complex. Comparing the device
to her old prosthesis, she said, "This is wonderful— and so much lighter."
DAVID BARCZAK
LANE MCLAUGHLIN
Day 2: Ashly begins testing her new prosthesis.
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