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Meeting Dates

5/20/09
6/17/09
7/15/09
8/19/09
9/16/09
10/21/09
11/18/09
12/16/09

All of our Amputee Support Group meetings are held in the Patient Dining Room on the 4Th floor at Waccamaw Community Hospital.

For more info contact:
Kay Price, LMSW at 843-652-1395
or
 Alex Lyons, CPO at 845-347-5800

 

I, James Eason, can recommend Mr. Lyons. He has done a very good job with all the work he has done for me.

He has continuously focused and listened to my ever changing condition. I give him an A+. I thank him very much for taking so much time with me.

 

For nearly 15 years, Anthony Zukowski let his amputation get the better of him. Now, he is a five-time Extremity Games medal winner.

In 1987, Anthony Zukowski was 21 years old, working his way through college at a steel service center in Grand Rapids, Mich. On Oct. 8, he happened to be in "the wrong place at the wrong time" near the new $1.5 million steel slitter machine, and suffered a degloving injury and 76 fractures in his left arm.

His injuries led to a 4-inch transradial amputation, as well as a skin graft covering a square-foot from his mid-bicep to the end of his residual limb.

"It definitely changed my life," Zukowski said.

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The Waccamaw Rehabilitation Center (WRC) at Waccamaw Community Hospital has been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) for their inpatient adult, amputation, and stroke specialty programs.
 
One of the many things that WRC had to do to reach this accreditation goal was to have its staff receive ongoing continuing education in prosthetics and orthotics.

WRC invited Alexander Lyons, CPO with Lyons Prosthetics & Orthotics to facilitate and teach these mandatory courses. Some of the topics presented were prosthetic basics, wound care protocols for amputations, closed chain gait concepts with muscle stretch flex responses, and microprocessor technology for both artificial limbs and braces.
 
WRC demonstrated its commitment to internationally-recognized standards for rehabilitation facilities with outstanding services and personnel. 

WRC is now one of six CARF-accredited facilities in South Carolina, one of three CARF-accredited stroke and amputee specialties. 

The accreditation will extend through February 2012.

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This program emphasizes the closed chain concepts of gait and applies those functional concepts to Orthotic design.
(Patient model will be present and meal will be provided.)

It integrates Biomechanics, proprioception, and muscle function with orthotic design to expand the possibilities for enhanced gait out comes.
This is the part two of the gait course given last year.
(**Last years attendance is not required**).
 

Hosted by:
Grandstrand Horry-Georgetown Technical College A PTA Program
 
Location:
Grandstrand Horry-Georgetown Technical College
3500 Pampas Drive
Myrtle Beach, SC
SC Room: 1165