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In The News McKinney pushes advances for amputees' prostheticsBy KURT BEGALKA of The Business Journal - Business News for McHenry County, ILRon Santo stands just fine, thank you, perched atop technology. Santo, the nine-time All-Star turned broadcaster with the Cubs, lost his legs to diabetes - the right in 2001 and the left in 2002. But fortunately for Santo, he met Ray McKinney... click here to read more... |
Prosthesis Users Say New Design Eases Pain(Chicago Tribune)Cubs broadcaster and double amputee Ron Santo is sold on a new type of artificial limb. In fact, he likes it enough to have invested in the Gurnee company that produces it...
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Miracle Machine(Waukegan News-Sun)Drawing walks was easy for Ron Santo when he was an All-Star slugger for the Chicago Cubs. But after retiring as a player, after diabetes took both legs below the knee, he couldn't walk easy until finding a miracle machine...
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New Legs, New Life(Gurnee Review)Kristen Anderson, formerly of Lake Villa, was just 17 when she lost both her legs following a suicide attempt. Though she's adjusted to her wheel-chair, the 24-year-old awaits new state-of-the-art prosthetic limbs made possible in part by a new foundation established to give amputees, particularly those who are young, a better quality of life...
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New Leg On Life(Waukegan News-Sun)More than eight years after losing her right leg when a car hit her while she was riding her bike in Jalisco, Mexico, Bertha Alicia Moreno may soon be able to ride again with the help of a high-tech prosthetic leg...
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Out Of Africa: A New Hope(Waukegan News-Sun)A young woman left for dead along an African roadside has found angels of help and hope in Lake County. Rosette Ntamabyaliro, now 20, had been critically injured in a horrendous car accident on January 7, 2004, while en route to a hospital to visit her mother...
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New Legs To Stand On(Waukegan News-Sun)When Kristin Anderson regained consciousness after 50 railroad freight cars rolled over her the first thing she saw were her legs 10 yards away...
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