Cosi habla con Blade Runner, amputado invitado especial, y con los Hospitales Shriners para Niños - Aplicaciones pediátricas ajustables

on the Cozy talks live show tonight I have a lot of friends with me here today this is probably the most we’ve had all

year on the show so I’m really excited guys for those of you who are watching the replay thank you again for the past

few weeks you guys have been so wonderful about commenting uh replay sending your questions and comments so

please continue to do that because after the show’s over I do like to go back and see who is watching the show so I’m

going to give you guys a couple minutes to jump on board I’m not going to introduce my guests just yet because I got you know anticipation is everything

there right um but you can see we have three other folks in the house from very different locations all around the United States

so I’m very excited about this I see some folks jumping on board this evening

guys don’t be shy especially not tonight when we have all these special guests on board let me know who you are where

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tonight we’ve got Kim Richards coming in from Utah there’s Jamie right there it is going to be a great show Jamie I

think it’s going to top even seeing the moose in your backyard we got Stephen from Jacksonville there’s my fellow

Floridian right there all right we got Stephen for Bama roll Tide thank you very much we got David Smith from Vegas

all right we’re getting them from all over the place tonight all right guys come on give my special

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make an entrance all right guys we have a very nice crew on board so we’re gonna officially get this party started hey

Felicia from Atlanta who are the guests I’m going to introduce them right now David because I’m talking way too much and they need to start talking uh but

for those of you joining my show for the first time welcome my name is kosi bayoso I’m a physical therapist amputee

specialist here in Tampa Florida I’ve been a PT now for a little over 20 years and I’m the proud owner of my own

Outpatient Clinic here called palanca and we’re going on guys we’re going to go on five years in January that I’ve

been doing this show and y’all are still listening to me thank you so with me tonight click

medical has been an absolutely amazing sponsor this entire year this is our last show for the year but hopefully not

the last show ever uh they have been so wonderful they are the makers of the revo fit and Revo lock system we’re

going to be talking a little bit about that and they brought me all these friends tonight so down on the screen below me I’ve got Robert Weber he is a

prosthetist with Shriners Hospital for Children in Lexington Kentucky to my

where am I pointing I don’t know where I’m pointing the other way this way this way we’ve got Joshua southards he is the

executive director of amputee Blade Runners and Joshua you are in Tennessee correct

yes ma’am Music City okay and then below Joshua is a buddy of ours Wesley Woods

he is an ER physician and a father to a young amputee and he’s going to be telling us a little bit about his story

and how he’s been working with amputee Blade Runners with his son so welcome Wesley thank you for joining us

thank you okay uh so we got oh Richard’s here for the first time live thank you for

joining us guys we got Patricia coming in from Naples Stephen all right we got Marianne on board Marianne you’re going

to want to stick around darling you might actually win something this evening just saying stick around all right guys so I’m going to talk a little

bit about click medical and then I’m going to zip it and let these folks tell their stories so click medical you guys

have been hearing me talk a lot about the revofit adjustable socket system okay here’s a wonderful example so I’m

gonna put my mic down and use my big voice right so what is the purpose of the adjustable socket the adjustable

socket is exactly that it adjusts to the fit of your residual limb so instead of

having to take your socket on and off throughout the day to take off or add on socks all you got to do is

twist the dial and it tightens or loosens the socket okay now guys this is a demo socket so

it’s got a lot of stuff going on here so I’m just going to kind of explain these are just the different ways your prosthetist can put adjustability in the

socket they can do like a gap design like this they can do a panel design I’m going to put that a little closer so you

can see it okay and then they can do what’s called a hinge design where it just kind of hinges in and out like this

okay lots of great stuff a lot of you have been using this uh socket now after listening to the show and I really

appreciate that if you guys are a revofit user go ahead and put it in the comments section I want to hear from you

like a boa system it’s exactly that Steven it’s actually a boa dial and they also have a click reel that’s a little

bit later on but they use the ones I have here are the boa dials so it’s exactly that so those of you who remember the Creator Joe Mahon has been

on the show several times this year and he actually got the inspiration when he saw his wife I think his wife was

snowboarding right and she was using that BOA dial to tighten up her snow Boot and it just light bulb went off and

click medical was created from there that’s the short story all right guys so I’m gonna go ahead

let’s see David says I’m new to amputation just getting ready to start the process and guys those of you who are watching the show for the first time

even though I talk a lot I do like to hear from you a lot as well so if you have any questions about the revofit

system please feel free to put it into the comments section so Steven’s got one David’s got one I know a lot of y’all

got these right now so I’m gonna kick it over now to Robert so as I mentioned before Robert is a prosthetist with

Shriners hospitals for children in Lexington Kentucky so I’m gonna let you tell your story Robert starting with how

you came about to becoming a prosthetist so I was working in the dental field at

the time and I wanted to do something different I knew that I liked health care a lot and I wanted to do something

different and everyone knows about physical therapy occupational therapy

physician assistant and all the other ancillary Sciences but um nobody really knows about Prosthetics

and Orthotics it’s sort of like this hidden field and I took a career counseling course and I plunked down

three hundred dollars I took a personality test and I know everything about myself now and they didn’t come up

with anything about physio about Prosthetics so I was volunteering for

something called the New York State Games for the physically challenged on Long Island and um

I saw a lot oops my lights just went out hold on a second

this is a great Halloween shot though I kind of like how it looks like that it works out well

all right in the meantime David says I’m working with pce in Las Vegas amazing clinic right there we got Jill coming in

from Berkeley still have some folks trickling in hey Liz it actually looks kind of cool yeah I

can’t turn the lights on I think they close it so let me see if I can change the locations here

if I see a shadowy figure behind you I’ll be sure to warn you it’s you know this is crazy

so anyway um I was watching

a weekend cable show called uh job line and there

was a guy there and he had a prosthetic and orthotic uh business in

in uh New York and he invited me to I called him and he

invited me to come over and Shadow him and that’s how I was introduced to it and six months later I applied to some

schools and I jumped in put everything in my car and I drove out to

Minneapolis oh wow yeah so when you graduated did you immediately go into

pediatric care or did you do General adult care right for Prosthetics um

I while in school I volunteered at the Shriners in Minneapolis and I worked at

uh University of Wisconsin hospital that also has a really nice Children’s

Hospital there but it was a mix Sports Medicine adults geriatrics

pediatric I didn’t know I was going to get into Pediatrics

um I’ve worked in the private sector with a

wide variety of patients but I don’t know it just seems to click no pun

intended and kids sort of like me and I like them so it works

so guys for those of you who have never heard of Shriners which I’m not sure how if you live in the U.S you haven’t heard

of Shriners it’s a network of non-profit medical facilities located across North America specializing pediatric care for

Orthopedic conditions so they serve patients with uh Burns cleft palate spinal cord injury amputation among the

many pathologies that they treat the care for the children is provided through the age of 18 and in some cases

through the age of 21 and is provided regardless of the family’s ability to

pay and I know I’ve always had a soft spot for Shriners we were talking about this we have one right in my backyard in

Tampa here that I used to work at and volunteer at it was my very first volunteer jobs in a physical therapy

clinic when I was in high school and I won’t tell you how long ago that was but a wonderful wonderful hospital

system so thank you Shriners for allowing us to have Robert on this evening

um so Robert tell us a little bit about the Pediatric we don’t really talk about Pediatrics much on this show and I think I need to do more of that

um how do your patients I mean obviously we know they’re little humans um but what ages what kind of

pathologies do you see um with the kids well we see newborns up

to 18 years old and um we see a lot some of a lot of the

younger ones have have hip some hip dysplasia hip issues

we see a lot of kids uh toward the younger uh age group with club foot

uh so we we see a lot of kids with Club food there are a lot of kids that we see prosthetic wise uh that are congenital

meaning that they’re born with a certain uh you know deficit of one of their

limbs or all of their limbs um so uh on occasion we’ll see a young

child who’s had some type of traumatic injury which I’m working with a young

girl now who’s about one who had a terrible traumatic accident but most of

the kids that we see are are congenital okay and then how did you start working

with click medical and the revo fit and I know you use that more now with your with your pediatric patients how did you

hear about them right well uh I was working at uh Shriners Hospital in Springfield Massachusetts and I wanted

to learn a little bit more about I wanted to broaden my knowledge base so

uh I started working in the private practice and that’s where I started using uh click medical devices and I I

used them on adults trans tibial trans femoral um and they worked well at changing the

way that the socket shape is uh to the person I mean uh rather than having the

person change their shape by donning different types of socks and such in

order to fit into the prosthesis uh so I after I left the private sector I came

back to Shriners and that right now I’m in Lexington Kentucky and I

I felt they were doing certain things here and I felt that we could do things

a little bit differently uh if not better and so I’ve been I’ve been trying to transition some of the kids into uh

the revo system and it’s been working really well

and I mean kids grow I have four kids of my own and I feel like I just turn around and I have to buy new pants new

socks shoes at the quick rate that they’re growing so I mean what’s on

average how many times do you have to upgrade a kid’s socket to fit for their their growth

well it all depends um and it depends on the fit

we try to fit them in a socket that several ply I know that when we work

with certain adults we’ll fit them in a very intimately fitting socket especially if their volume is under

control so sometimes so with the kids we want to get you know three ply fin five

ply fit you know some practitioners will do even more than that

um because they grow and you can and you can use these the ply with the uh with the revo system that in conjunction with

the real system that we’re using uh so I want to say

two years on average now we’ll they’ll come back

to us for adjustments and we can uh for certain certain

sockets uh are limited in the adjustability we’re uh trying to uh

fabricate prostheses where we can adjust them as opposed to replace them every

year right and that helps a lot with that and actually click medical sent me one of

their pediatric sockets I just want to show you guys how cute that looks with the little flamingos on it and the boa dial on the back

um so thank you Robert we’ve got a couple comments coming in here let me just see Steven’s asking I’m having a

hard time fitting a fleshy AK limb does the revo fit work for these type of issues

um yes mainly because again you’re fitting I think Robert you said it beautifully the socket is fitting to the

residual limb not trying to make the residual limb fit into the socket so just in cases it quite nicely and the

other really nice thing Stephen and again I’m not the prostitute so Robert feel free to call me up if I’m saying

anything wrong um but what I like about this system is that you can add the adjustability in

different ways right so if you’re somebody who has a fleshy lamp a lot of soft tissue at the end if you’re someone

who has a bulbous end for example if it’s a signs amputation or a needless articulation you can create I think it’s

usually the hinge design that they use oh he took off I guess I scared him off already

um so you can use a different design to accommodate for the shape of your limb

let’s see all right so Joshua I think that’s Robert’s exit he gave us his own exit

right there so we’ll go ahead and get started with you there he is

the socket that cozy has has in the at the posterior aspect it has those really

nice uh you can see the the the strings attached to there right

right at the top right at the proximal border and so then so the lamination there they made it so that it’s thin

enough so that the lamination will squeeze and so that if someone who’s fleshy that’ll that’ll give them a good

squeeze up on the top and that’ll help with the suspension yep there we go you brought some toys

Robert you want to show anything else well this is so this is what we mainly we see a lot of uh the congenital kids

as I said and this is one of the uh examples that we have so now uh a lot of

the congenital kids that we see are signs and Beauties and The Sims amputee has a large bulbous distal end so um

this is one example it’s not the only example that we use we sometimes use an

inner liner sometimes we don’t I have a kid that I’m making a running leg running a leg and a uh an everyday leg

and we’re not using a liner for him uh but uh so you’ll see here so this is

this section is really bulbous and so what we use a traditional type of uh of

us of a inner liner and they’ll this will this is split so they get push into the bottom so

but so you don’t necessarily need to use this but this one fits in really nicely and he doesn’t have to remove it so he

could he could push in this this way and then this door closes off using the

little dial and it’s right on

yeah it tightens up and then it forms the bottleneck here yep

it’s so great because it’s so it’s so adjustable say that a person say that they gain weight you know it’s it’ll

it’ll accommodate for that if they lose weight we could pay it on the inside here and and form greater pressure if

they’re distal end changes we can go in there and and adjust for that as well

looks good so yes Stephen the answer to that one is yes it will occur soft

tissue on the end no we love donations I knew so I love the explanations

um guys we’re gonna I forgot I have a way to do shame on me um so I sent out to my email subscribers

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and I promise I do not spam your email inbox with a bunch of useless emails

it’s good stuff like giveaways so those of you who participated in this particular giveaway and you filled out

the revo lock or the revofit quiz you were picked for a name for a raffle so our winner this evening is Brian Bishop

so congratulations Brian where’s Brian he’s used Bustelo all right so we’re gonna get him some prizes

and I’ll contact you afterwards to get your address in the meantime we’re going to move on to this way Joshua I can’t

point right with this camera uh so Joshua is our executive director from amputee Blade Runners and this is an

organization that I’ve been following and I’ve kind of been stalking you guys for a really long time as well didn’t want to say it that way but uh love

seeing the work that you all do with the runners in our community and I want to hear more about you and about amputee

Blade Runners so Joshua tell us a little bit about what’s going on all right so I’ll skip me I’ll just jump

straight into ABR and we can talk about me later uh but uh we are primarily

based uh here in Nashville Tennessee that is where I am uh we also uh have offices in Savannah Georgia uh Ryan fan

was our co-founder uh from Nashville he’s been in Savannah for the past 12 years or so and then we have uh Ken Ike

in Flint Michigan and Zach Weber in Toledo Ohio uh that also do volunteer

work as prosthetists for us as well so we are I’m the sole employee everyone else volunteers uh unless Seth Ramsey

who’s my uh two morning a week intern this semester happens to be listening in which case you know he’s uh he’s also

helping out some tooth but uh yeah we see people from all over the U.S we

specifically work on running legs or sport specific legs not everyone wants to do cross-country or track sometimes

it’s you know they need a great power lifting leg or skiing or rock climbing

or whatever it is I think you name the sport I probably have someone competing at a very high level at that sport have

again folks from about 40 different states that we serve about 150 or so

people per year that we are working with and similar to China’s we say hey if if

this we screen based on prosthetic need and if someone needs the thing that we

have and we think it’s a good fit both ways and we say come on down to one of our offices and we’re going to make this

work and we are not going to bill you for that we just think it’s the right thing to do the right thing and just

take it like that so uh how we got to be this I like that Robert spoke first

because I can say that uh Ryan fan is a former Lexington Shriners kid himself uh

so Ryan lost his leg uh when he was about three years old uh he was like

every good kid in the 80s he was riding on his big wheel tricycle and a guy in a pickup truck just didn’t see him and hit

and dragged him uh up 7 500 feet something like that before someone

flagged him down and said hey there’s there’s a child uh so he went to

Vanderbilt had a Boyd ankle this articulation which is not the most

common one Robert was talking about sign which is the more traditional one and we can talk about amputation Styles

probably at another podcast uh but he went to

about two and a half three hours away to get up to Lexington and that’s where he went for his prosthetic care for most of

his childhood and he was just used to breaking things he he loved Sports

football especially and he broke maybe 30 or so feet in his uh his young life

and he was playing in the Shriners Tennessee East West Bowl uh which was televised and he

not surprisingly broke his foot in that game went over to the sideline grabbed a roll of duct tape duct tape the foot

back together and like all right coach I’m ready put me back in uh a lot of people in the stands hadn’t seen

anything like that before uh people on team uh and there was a guy out in Oklahoma

that was watching that and said clearly this kid needs something that can keep up with him doing everything that he can

do but they were able to fit him with a running leg heathe in uh ran track at

Tennessee State University hang on Jake you’re cutting out on us uh

oh it was all good before how about now I’ll keep saying something I can turn video off

you’ll see if that helps nope it just takes a second no I think we’re getting you back

okay come back Joshua it’s okay I’m here every while there’s like a loop

and it just takes a few seconds and then itself and we’re good now we’re back okay okay where did where did it cut out

go ahead so uh

okay uh yeah so someone saw that helped him out uh with a running leg you know at

that point he was about to age out of the shrine system anyway uh he had already committed to uh going to

Tennessee State University he wound up running on the track team uh TSU has a great history uh and connection between

Olympics and their sport uh Wilma Rudolph uh was a probably the most

famous track runner there but I think this is fun TSU alumni have more Olympic

and paralympic medals than the majority of countries that participate in Olympics and Paralympics and Ryan is

responsible for two of those medals so he ran in the Athens Paralympics and was

on the U.S touring team for a few years after that and you know then he he’s

done with his uh his paralympic career and looking for where he can engage in things uh similar to Robert like okay I

gotta go somewhere for that so he went to Northwestern for prosthetic school

and then when he was doing his residency here in Nashville with Aaron Fitzsimmons

um and Aaron got his uh passion for things first by working uh as an

occupational therapist at St Jude’s and the process said hey you know you you seem to really like Prosthetics uh maybe

you should focus more on that so he went back to school he had tried doing overseas prosthetic Mission stuff and

there were some bumps in the road there so he and Ryan were just on a run one weekend uh both pushing each other hard

as as they enjoy doing and uh you know just talking things through and

Ryan said hey really one of the best things in my life well was given to me it was something that I would not have

been able to afford I didn’t really even know that that was a thing that I could ask for that I could dream of that and

uh so many good things in my life that kind of as a result of that so that should not rest just with me that should

be more people that can benefit from that so we have worked with several

hundred athletes over the past 11 years and uh yeah more all the time

amazing that’s amazing so I’m I’ll bring him on the next show

sorry guys like there’s a little bit of connection issue here

okay hear me we’re good okay so lastly not Lee

at least would love to hear from Wesley you are familiar very familiar with the amputee

Blade Runners um so I’m gonna let yourself and and how you came to know the amputee Blade Runners

sure so um I can kind of give you a little back

okay four boys and one of my one of my boys Aiden

uh he was at the age of six he was involved in an ATV accident that left

him with a fractured pelvis a broken left leg and multiple

breaks my severe damage to his right lower leg um

he was um the next five days or so trying to uh ban

infection um yeah multiple surgeries

tissue and then seven days after his uh accident it was determined it would be

best the damage was just too extensive and that is lag wouldn’t be functional and infection was you and threatening

you know uh potentially threatening is a lot if if we did mutation so then on

Valentine’s Day February 14th we had a action performed

so uh um and uh then to uh

how we got in with ABR ah um we’re in the hospital

uh we had multiple people in order to the amputee community that actually called they sent

text they came and visited visited recommended uh should Aiden require an amputation

um had worked directly with Aaron and ABR called me

um and and where we talked to Aaron um one of the men lived in Birmingham

they both came to visit us and uh one was an avid Runner and you know to be

able to run and play and continue to live life as an active little boy and

was certain that the way to achieve that

foreign

I was able to understand your story so okay

that is what is his his normal walking leg

foreign he

doesn’t even like it um so uh he he stays on his running blade

99 uh if we need a shoe

uh like if we’re we need to dress up then

we we have a an actual walking foot but rarely where where’s it and he would

rather just stay in his blade are you guys

I feel we’re having some connection issues I think we lost our host

I I will say uh one I’d always love Wes

thanks for sharing that side of things one of the things that I love about the ABR Community is how passionate they are

when they see someone who is not even at the point of uh having had an amputation

but just reach out and connect with over state lines uh I I think that’s a

special thing and I would also say he is not unique in that based on age uh yeah

you know they’re always and especially having Brothers you always want to run and do stuff so uh having the ability to

get out and go anytime is pretty common in what I see

oh looks like because he’s back

yes yes

looks like we are at the limits of the software for just a moment to see if it helps with our

connection sounds good

still see you well and hear you thank you you’re just losing connection

with her yeah I will so while she’s working on oh I can hear you okay

are you can you hear me sorry about that guys it

seemed the stream can get a little cranky sometimes um I apologize guys for

the bad connection right now is my voice coming through at least

okay so we’ll just keep going with the audio and probably the crazy Frozen face that I have on right now so

I’m not sure where we left off when we stopped hearing each other

all right so Wesley I know you were telling what about all the activities that right now

I’m kind of reading that part of the question a little bit

so he’s um you know he’s got three two older

brothers one younger brother that uh really really pushed him and

um essentially whatever he wants to do maybe done a little bit different

he plays basketball he plays plays baseball he you know likes to well the other little

things that I that I uh you know a kid wants to do the

the big the big driving factors of that is just

got to keep you know they don’t show him any mercy so um that’s that’s helpful

and before thing cuts out again I’ll go the next

I’m putting that the comment section

foreign folks we’re going to try one thing I’m going to exit out of the stream and

we’re going to start it up again just so we can get things uh back on track so Wesley Joshua just click back on the

link in one minute sounds good as we’ll be back in less than two minutes okay so

look for my live feed we’ll be back in less than two minutes

foreign

foreign

that has never happened

I could hear bits and pieces I’m like okay good I’m so glad they’re continuing the conversation I’m gonna give Robert a

few more seconds I changed my bandwidth helping out right now okay

all righty here we go okay guys and we’re back

okay yay okay we have four Talking Heads and all of us are moving the way we’re supposed to be moving so let’s take it

back because I really want to hear the answer completely to this question Wesley you’ve said it like three times and I apologize for asking you again you

said your son is very active he’s got older brothers and a younger brother you said so they keep him moving

that’s correct they keep um so he’s uh he’s able to do

whatever it is that he wants to do um it it may be done a little bit

different able to adapt to you know what whatever it is I mean just

just a uh uh when you’re doing ADR fundraiser so it’s

a kind of a combination of a three mile a 5K and then a one mile Fun Run afterwards and he decided he was going

to compete in that and uh he did the whole four miles um oh wow

he plays uh he plays uh his friend he plays uh park and rec

baseball um he’s been skiing a couple of times he’s he’s decided he likes snowboarding

uh that’s still that’s a really tough thing to do with uh with a need this

articulation and not having a natural knee but he uh because I was amazed this past

year how much and uh I do and it’s

that’s inspiring to watch so I’m curious is he also in a Revo fit

socket right now Josh

with the adjustable he’s got this yeah so I Wes tell is this at this is a demo

socket that we have I think was this his that look that’s a nice looking socket I like the

colors right I don’t know his so he has a uh he has a

rigid front side um and the kind of the Horseshoe uh

adjustable three sides that slides off um okay I think that’s I can’t I’m

having a hard time seeing that one I don’t think that’s used but I think that’s very um

really really close okay and actually Joshua we have a

couple of comments or questions coming in for either you or Robert so uh Alexa says I’m rough on lumpy Stumpy what is a

strong blade that I can use what would you recommend I

also love that everyone has like their own names for the residual limbs it’s one of my favorite things uh so lumpy

Stumpy is a great one Alexis uh I would say you know there are a lot of fortunately there are a decent amount of

uh manufacturers that have a wide variety of different types of blades so uh without knowing lots more details I

would say that two big considerations is uh are you attaching at the bottom a

distal Mount are you attaching in the back a posterior Mount you can some of that it just depends on your residual

length uh if you have both options or only one option uh

another thing that you really have to work with the process to figure out is

what is the specific activity that you are doing if you just look at you know the guidelines white is the only frame

of reference to make sure that there are enough layers of carbon fiber or whatever the material it is in the blade

but uh you know a and the amputation level so Wes’s point

is great with the neatest articulation the ability to put all your weight through the end of your residual in and

not having a knee those people will put more Force Through the knee the blade

everything else than someone uh AKA BK something like that and then you know

are you trying to run 100 meter 200 meter a marathon you know somewhere in

between where you might be able to have a stiffer blade that gives you more energy return but it’s going to take

more energy out of you if you do that for too many revolutions so multifactorial those are the the big

things that I would think through or your process would think through with you uh and Robert you can jump in and

say anything that I’ve missed I can care I think you’ve covered all the bases yes

it’s difficult to uh it’s it’s really difficult to name one

specific blade for uh you know it’s about a one size fits all so I think

that if you have that discussion with your prosthetist you’ll be able to uh to guide you in the right direction

and then following up on that question Michelle wants to know how can I get more information on getting a special

sport leg for my son so if somebody wants to apply to amputee Blade Runners or Shriners for that

matter how would they go about doing this so I’ll give the AVR side uh so our

website is amputeebladerunners.com it’s a mouthful but uh you know there you go

and then there’s a page in there want a running leg uh there are slightly

different Pathways for children and adults we work the youngest person that we work with is

uh five years old the oldest person that we worked with is probably 75 years so

we see a pretty wide range it’s a little bit uh easier on the kids just because

uh children are Baseline higher activity humans once you hit puberty that’s it’s

just a much more real decision that you have to make because the rest of time you do things like what we’re doing

right now you sit down you look at a screen you type emails you you know do things like that and then you go change

and you run and then you go back and I guarantee you that probably none of

Wes’s boys do that it’s a hey I’ll race you to the mailbox I’ll go whatever which is why you know probably he wears

of like 99 of the time yep very nice

for Shriners you can uh we have uh hospitals all over the country so Google

us and find Which is closest to you and uh give them a call and we can uh

they’ll set you up with an appointment with one of our orthopedic surgeons that specializes in Prosthetics and amputees

and uh we’ll and go from there we we take a thoughtful approach just like

amputee Blade Runners does and we listen to uh our children and we listen to our

children’s parents and uh together we come up with uh and an outcome and a

game plan that will work best for for the child

I think both of you are going to be receiving some phone calls in the near future judging by the comments that are coming in I know Kim Richards says she’s

looking for a leg for downhill skiing um so that would be a very cool leg uh

so guys let’s just do we’ve got some more stuff to give away so Jamie uh if you want to go ahead and post in the

comment section the link that we were talking about earlier in the meantime I’m going to announce the three winners

of our Instagram giveaway so you guys know we’re trying to show some love to our sponsor here guys

um it’s not just about everything that they do for our show we also like to say thank you to our sponsors and the best way we can say thank you is by

supporting them on social media so this giveaway was about following them on Instagram and following me and then

tagging a friend so our three winners this evening they’re going to receive a really nice Yeti mug have y’all seen the

click medical Yeti mugs they’re like nice don’t have mine with me right now but we have Marianne Thompson she’s one

of our winners we have Susan Lacy and David Munch the three of you I’m going to be contacting you later to get your

addresses if you’re watching the show now send me your address and I will send you the yeti mug uh Michelle says Joe

likes walking barefoot with his prosthetic is this okay or does trying and does Shriners help 19 year olds or

is 18 the limit so Robert that one’s all yours well uh I don’t Advocate kids uh walking

around without shoes on but guess what they do it all the time and we just roll with it

um we we try to guide our patients and try to encourage them to do what will be

best for them and um it’s similar to being the parent of for your own kids

and trying to get your kids to eat the peas that you want them to eat um but uh if they don’t

I mean it’s not the end of the world um it’s just something that they need to

understand what the reason why and what the benefits are and what the uh the

reason why they shouldn’t do it and uh what was the second part of the question uh does Shriners accept 19 year olds or

is 18. um in special cases if we have an existing

patient and they are they need something uh there may be

special dispensation if you will to uh to uh intervene but for the most part

it’s uh it’s a it’s capped at 18 year old

okay so guys Jamie just posted uh the link to the click Medical website go to

that website scroll down just a little bit and tell us one of the benefits of having a Revo fit socket put it into the

comments section we’re gonna pick a winner so once again go to the click medical link that she just posted and

tell us what is one of what are one of the benefits of having a revofit socket put it into the comments section

um so in the meantime Wesley like I said we don’t often get a chance to talk about Pediatrics on the show

um if you had to give advice to the parents because I know we do have some parents of amputee children listening on

the show tonight what would your advice be as a father sure so that’s a really good question

be patient with your child uh and listen to their concerns

to really relate to what they’re feeling and experiencing

um I would also encourage make sure they have a prosthetist that that

listens to their concerns and and is patient with kids need someone that

wants them to be active uh and to just be kids that can occur to

a prosthesis from the daily wear and tear um

also love your child without enabling them just shows that you don’t think

that they can accomplish certain things which will have for themselves

so um I think this job of not letting this

Define him and it’s just become part of the woven into the for him

so again he’s got these three brothers that uh really uh treat him no differently

than as if his amputation never happened and probably finally I would say

encourage your child to never give up you know at some closed in this life is

not avoidable um but being defeated is optional

everyone will face challenges and they will come come in different faces different forms different severities get

your child to keep moving and to try the things that they want to do

my wife and I have doubts and fears over Aid and trying new things all the time but he’s proven capable of doing

anything that he wants so far just using his own adaptations so uh

that’s wonderful it actually reminds me a few years ago I had uh bill zabelny on the show Bill’s a Bellamy is a two-time

Hockey Hall of Famer he’s the youngest of he was the youngest of four and he lost his leg when he was a pre-teen and

just telling us his story about growing up with his three brothers who just wouldn’t let him stay in the air and

they basically were like if you want that last piece of cake you’re gonna have to get to it before we do kind of

situation so it’s just really uh spurred him on to becoming a Hockey Hall of Famer later on down the line guys thank

you so much for for checking out the website we’ve got a lot of great questions here I’m gonna let my girl Jamie pick out a winner here random from

the raffle um oh Michelle says I’m learning Wesley thanks for that I am a nervous wreck

watching him walk well Michelle I can tell you right now your son has one of the best support systems with you and

your husband and I greatly admire both of you so I know he’s gonna do amazing and he is doing amazing

um and we have a uh winner here Stephen azakowski is our revofit benefit winner so Stephen you’re going to be receiving

a three-month supply of the liner wand it’s a really great great kit for

hygiene care for that liner we’re going to talk a little bit about that later um so guys in the meantime I do want to

say thank you to all of you with all the computer demons that were living in my new laptop this evening we managed

um to get through the show and hear your wonderful stories Wesley thank you very much for coming on the show um and

telling us a little bit about your family life and story uh Joshua once again sells thank you to Ryan for

allowing to tell his story through you um and for sharing the amputee blade runner’s work and Robert thank you and

thank you to Shriners for loaning us uh this wonderful prosthetist this evening hopefully it won’t be the last time I

see you guys on this show um so guys in the meantime in my email I’ll be sending out an email probably

tomorrow or on Monday and I’m going to put all the information that we talked about tonight so those of you who are interested in looking up amputee Blade

Runners I’ll put that on there same thing with the Shriners Hospital and last but certainly not least the click

medical sponsors for this evening so if you guys are interested in adjustability in the socket these are the guys to talk

to guys all right um so as always guys I just want to say thank you for letting us be a part of

your lives this evening we’ll be here next Wednesday same bat Time same bat Channel

bye thanks bye