As more people with amputations choose osseointegration (OI), prosthetists across the country are learning how to support this patient base.
About 2,000 patients across the world have undergone the procedure to have titanium implanted inside their bones to connect to their prostheses. About 500 of those patients have received the Osseo anchored Prostheses for the Rehabilitation of Amputees (OPRA) Implant System, the only US Food and Drug (FDA)-Approved osseointegration solution in the United States.
Sep 10, 2020
Dr. Jason Stoneback calls osseointegration (OI) a 鈥済ame-changer鈥 for amputees. He also knows that successful outcomes can鈥檛 be assumed. They have to be earned.
Osseointegration, a form of implant surgery, is restoring freedom of movement to amputees in a revolutionary new way. Correspondent Barry Petersen speaks to doctors about this prosthetic procedure, and with patients who are embracing their expanded mobility with a vengeance.
In December 2020, the FDA approved the Osseoanchored Prostheses for the Rehabilitation of Amputees (OPRA) Implant System鈥攖he first implant system in the United States for transfemoral amputees who have difficulty using a conventional prosthesis. OPRA had been previously available and marketed under a humanitarian device exemption (HDE) since 2015.
There鈥檚 always a moment before he treats another injured cowboy when Jason Stoneback will sit outside the rodeo circle and long for the time when he was inside it.
There鈥檚 always a moment before he treats another injured cowboy when Jason Stoneback will sit outside the rodeo circle and long for the time when he was inside it.
That longing starts gnawing at him the morning of the rodeo, when the dust creeps into his nose and he hears the first whinny. It was probably there Sunday, when he readied himself before the Greeley Stampede鈥檚 rodeo.
Jul 3, 2014
Dr. Jason Stoneback, left, checks out the leg of saddle bronc rider Heith DeMoss while inside the Justin Boots Sportmedicine Team trailer outside of the Stampede Arena on Sunday. Stoneback is a former rodeo competitor who volunteers his time to help out other rodeo cowboys.