Shelley's New Arms: Advanced Arm Dynamics Northwest

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