Lecture series addresses replacing lost limbs (5/27/04)

May 27, 2004
Lecture series addresses replacing lost limbs
http://www.dcmilitary.com/army/standard/9_11/features/29224-1.html


Photo by Larry Ketron
Maj. Janet Papazis chief of Physical Therapy Amputee Section at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, said her section strives to "get Soldiers back to full function whether they stay in the Army or not." She and others spoke May 13 on the advances made in limb replacement.

by Ann Duble
Standard Editor


Soldiers who lost limbs in the Civil War had a one-time shot to get an artificial limb from the government or take the $70 it cost, said George Wunderlich, executive director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine.

Today, the Army spares no expense to treat Soldiers who lost limbs in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, said Lt. Col. Jeffrey Gambel, chief of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

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Wounded soldier tries life without his right leg (5/23/04)

May 23, 2004

Wounded soldier tries life without his right leg
By CARY LEIDER VOGRIN THE GAZETTE
http://www.gazette.com/war/0523xwar.html

David Pettigrew is matter-offact and unemotional. He calls himself “overwhelmingly optimistic.” This despite the fact he lost his right leg — all of it — during an attack last summer in Iraq.

“My very last roommate had no hands,” he said of his stay at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. “He was a bilateral belowthe-elbow amputee. I’m missing a leg. I can get around on crutches the rest of my life. That guy has no hands. There’s always someone out there who can put what happened to you in perspective.”

In all, 4,524 military personnel have been wounded in action in Iraq, according to Defense Department statistics.

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Amputee still 'fit for duty' in Iraq (5/10/04)

Amputee still 'fit for duty' in Iraq
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/May/10/mn/mn02a.html/?print=on

By Patrick O'Driscoll
USA Today

FORT CARSON, Colo. — Army Capt. David Rozelle loosens his belt buckle, the one his commander gave him on the eve of the Iraq war, to reveal a 16-word inscription: "Brave Rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel."


U.S. Army Capt. David Rozelle lost his right foot to an Iraqi land mine last year. After surgery, rehabilitation and being fitted with a prosthesis, he has been pronounced "fit for duty" and will resume a command position in June. He alternates his workouts with weight lifting and swimming at Fort Carson, Colo.
Gannett News Service

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Alabama officials visit amputee victim from Afghanistan conflict (5/6/03)

Alabama officials visit amputee victim from Afghanistan conflict
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/030506/visit.shtml

By Jeffrey McMurray
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — Alabama National Guardsman Scott Barkalow lost his right leg fighting for his country in Afghanistan. Next week, he's getting fitted for a prosthetic one, and he's hoping it'll allow him to return to the battlefield someday.

Modern medicine makes Barkalow's dream a possibility, but it's his patriotism that attracted a group of prominent Alabamians to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., on Monday, to give him a hero's welcome.

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