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Military-funded prosthetic technologies benefit more than just veterans

  • Written by Mark Geil, Professor of Kinesiology and Health, Georgia State University
imageA high-tech prosthesis for a child draws on decades of research.Mark Geil, CC BY-ND

In 1905, an Ohio farmer survived a railroad accident that cost him both of his legs. Two years later, he founded the Ohio Willow Wood company, using the namesake timber to hand-carve prosthetic limbs. The company grew, surviving the Great Depression and a fire that...

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