Local Amputees Chosen to Experience World's First Completely
Computer-Controlled Prosthetic Leg

Thursday June 25, 2009
12 p.m.

St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital
575 Hudson Valley Ave
New Windsor, NY

Several above knee amputees from the Catskill & Hudson Valley regions will have the opportunity to experience the use of a high-tech “C-Leg,” the world’s first and leading completely computer-controlled artificial leg.

You'll get to see their reactions as they're able to walk down stairs step-over-step for the first time since becoming an amputee and are now able to walk down ramps or slopes and over rough terrain without the fear of falling down. Utilizing microprocessors to control the knee's hydraulic function 50 times a second, the C-Leg gives back incredible stability and mobility to those with lower limb loss.

You'll also see the process of how a user's C-Leg is programmed via a laptop computer to match the unique gait of their sound leg, how the C-Leg can be programmed for different modes (stances for biking, golfing, inline skating, etc.), and how switching to the different modes is done using a remote control.

The presentation begins at 12:00 pm and will feature patients fit with the C-Leg from the morning clinical session. Lunch will be provided. Immediately following, Tom Passero, Certified Prosthetist and Clinical Director for Prosthetic & Orthotic Associates will introduce health care professionals and the community to other cutting edge, prosthetic technology that Prosthetic & Orthotic Associates offers to its patients. This includes Compas, the first ever computerized prosthesis alignment system, as well as the latest in upper extremity prosthetics, including the i-Limb hand, the world’s first fully-articulating, bionic hand, and ProDigits, the first ever electronic digit prosthesis for partial hand amputees.

For more information or to RSVP to this event, call (800) 593-9318 today. Prosthetic & Orthotic Associates will be providing van service from our Middletown & Poughkeepsie offices for those needing transportation. Please call to reserve your spot.

We hope to see you there!
The POA Clinical Team