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The OPRA™ Implant System has helped over a thousand amputees to improve their quality of life since the first surgery in 1990. Explore how the OPRA™ Implant System has impacted real patients.
The OPRA™ Implant System is a game-changer. It really is.
For Wayne, everyday activities were often challenging while using traditional socket prostheses. As a bilateral above-knee amputee, he frequently encountered issues with comfort, mobility, and fitting into everyday spaces.
It’s totally worth the time and investment.
After a traumatic accident and years of limb salvage surgeries, Gini ultimately made the difficult decision to amputate her right leg above the knee. She initially did well with a traditional socket prosthesis, but complications soon developed that made socket use increasingly painful.
I want to be a race car driver.
Then fate played an unexpected hand. “So I was at work one day in July 2010,” he recalls, “and this major I deployed within Iraq rings me and says, ‘Hey, Liam! We’ve got a team going to Afghanistan. I want you on it. It had been one of Dwyer’s boyhood dreams to be a Marine. The offer to return proved too tempting to resist.
It only takes 8 seconds to put on my leg.
In an interview with Integrum, Concord High School social studies teacher and assistant football coach Glenn Runyon tells the story of how he lost his left leg above the knee due to osteosarcoma in 2015 and how he regained an active lifestyle.
For the first time in over 5 years, Susan Fumagalli Mahoney was able to walk again.
For the first time in over 5 years, Susan Fumagalli Mahoney was able to walk again. In 2016, Susan Fumagalli Mahoney, Senior Associate Director of Athletics and Compliance Officer at Gettysburg College, suffered severe lower extremity injuries which led to her amputation.
My socket and leg were like an enemy to me.
Now, a year and a half after receiving the OPRA™ Implant System, Stacey says her life is “not even recognizable” compared to before.
“Immediately, you get feedback in the bone — it was like a light bulb went off. I thought, this is amazing.”
I feel great, I can just go!
“I am a lot more active now than I was before the military. Sometimes I forget I am missing a limb. And for me to forget that, shows how far I have come.”
Brian Tobias continues to take on new and exciting challenges everyday. He has an honorable past as a Navy veteran.