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Extra Effort: Two surgeries, hearing loss not stopping Eureka lineman Ryan Fuller
EUREKA, Ill. (WMBD/WYZZ) — He started on the offensive line as a freshman. But the sports career of Eureka High School’s Ryan Fuller was derailed as a sophomore. He suffered a season-ending knee injury in the first game of his sophomore year against Canton. Then the following summer, he suffered an elbow injury playing baseball […]
Regenerative reconstruction offers hope and fuller lives to amputees
Photo: Daniel Odame/Unsplash by Matt SheehanOSF Healthcare PEORIA - There’s a new hope for people facing amputations, and it’s in a mix of fascinating, perhaps unexpected methods. Roughly 465,000 amputations take place in the United States each year, with 83% of them being lower limb amputations like toes and legs, according to the Amputee Coalition. Eric Martin, DO, the chief of Vascular Surgery at OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, Illinois, has crafted a predictable and consistent method that provides reliable outcomes for heroic limb salvage. He does it through procedures referred to as regenerative reconstruction, a treatment...
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