From the Democrat Herald:
Shelley Durrant shrugged her left shoulder and an
electric motor whirred, bending her elbow and sending her hand up
toward the ceiling.
MacJulian “Mac” Lang, the Northwest clinical
director for Advanced Arm Dynamics, quickly adjusted a harness and
sensor pads to make it easier for the Bellfountain woman to move her
prosthetic limbs. They repeated the exercise and other drills before
Lang took the arms back to his shop for more extensive tinkering.
On
the morning of Oct. 3, Durrant was digging fence posts with a
tractor-mounted auger when her clothing got caught in the rotating
mechanism, and she lost both of her arms. The critical injury required
more than two months of hospitalization and rehabilitation....READ MORE
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