prosthetic leg in four inch high heels. she told me she accepted early on what happened to her and realized how hard she was going to have to work to recover and get back to the place she wanted to be. she has certainly put in that hard work. i want to listen to what she told me when i asked what marathon monday is going to mean for her. this year for , it s like a new starting point. it s a day where i m going to do the things i was supposed to do last year and didn t get to. it s sort of a celebration i think for me of all that i ve been able to accomplish this year and a time to start new memories. reporter: one of the things that heather has done this year is she s been helping other amput amputees. she s certified as a peer counselor and she s helped other amput amputees.
muscles and duplicate whatever the healthy limb can do. i never thought it would be possible for me to juck up stairs. once we started it, it s remarkable how easy it is for me. we re working on a robotic leg for the above-the-leg amput amputees. we ve got the fully powered knee and ankle. it can move by itself but is not connected to the user in any kind of explosiicit way. it has sensors on it and it understands how the user s interacting with it. the leg has two fully powered joints. it has a motor at the knee joint and a motor at the ankle joint and the motors are the equivalent of the muscles and the sensors are the same as the sensors in a healthy limb. if you look at conventional prosthet prosthetics, you have to sling them around to move them around and this is a leg with the equivalent of muscles what we found is people use less energy when they walk with it and people generally walk faster and they can do things like go up
continue to be critical? hours? the younger patients will require operations tomorrow and serial operations over days. a lot of the injuries are soft tissue and vascular injuries and they have to be approached in kind of step-by-step. how about ear drums, are you seeing any shattered ear drums? we have seen at least one. for me and the residents to actually go right back around, particularly the people, in the operating room to get a good exam. can you give us more information on ages, hometowns? no, i m sorry, i can t, actually. can you talk about the amput amputees, how many? i can t. i mean, a couple.