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INVENTION HELPS WAR AMPUTEES -- Dozens of amputees

are now using a device called the Solo-Step and it's

putting them on the fast track to recovery.

 

Solo-Step

 

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SD Invention Helps War Amputees
 

A South Dakota company is helping soldiers wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan get back on their feet.

Dozens of amputees are now using a device called the Solo-Step and it's putting them on the fast track to recovery.

A recovering soldier walks slowly around an indoor track at Walter Reed's new 10 million dollar rehab center testing his new prosthetic leg.

"It simply protects them from falling so they don't get hurt or re-injure themselves," said Chris Karr.

Chris Karr of Sioux Falls is part owner of the Solo Step, a rehabilitation support system that Karr says provides numerous benefits to patients.

The company redesigned it's original version of the Solo Step to accommodate a large number of returning soldiers who've lost legs in the war.

"There's an immediate need for this type of product for this system and they deserve to know that if they go fight our country that when they come back that something like this is ready for them."

The design, with its harness and lanyard, gives an injured soldier confidence while doing their rehab.

"This allows them to focus on their rehab and push themselves even harder because they don't have to worry about anything else."

Karr says watching heroes who gave up so much use his product is gratifying beyond words.

"For me to go out and meet these guys, it's very inspiring and makes you proud to be able to contribute to that facility to be able to provide this system to them, it's a great feeling."

The new amputee care center just opened this weekend and the Solo-Step is going to get lots of use, because Walter Reed serves 100 limb loss patients daily.

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Larry Scott  --