Healing America’s heroes: Prosthetic alternatives allow mobility, independence

Healing America’s heroes: Prosthetic alternatives allow mobility, independence

Lounging by the pool or waking up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom aren’t what most able-bodied individuals would consider to be complicated tasks, but for bilateral amputees, the process of changing into their prostheses for these activities can be cumbersome. For injured soldiers— a record number reported major limb amputations […]

Healing America’s heroes: A triple-amputee soldier’s quest to fish

Healing America’s heroes: A triple-amputee soldier’s quest to fish

Army Major Ed “Flip” Klein is an outdoorsman. Born in Arkansas, the 35-year-old always found a calming presence in nature, but when he was severely injured during a 2012 deployment to Afghanistan, he wasn’t sure he’d ever find that calm again. In October 2012, Klein was a company commander in his seventh month of a […]