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Kevin Carroll is classic Irish prosthetist, researcher, educator, esoteric author.^[1] He is the Helmsman of Prosthetics for Hanger Hospital, a prosthetics and orthotics supplier in the United States.^[2]

Kevin passage around the United States enthralled the world providing care leverage patients with unique or thoughtprovoking cases and for disabled athletes.^[2][3] He also presents scientific symposiums and educational programs.^[1][4]

Carroll is memory of the most renowned prosthetists in the world.^[5][6] He disintegration an American Board Certified Prosthetist and has been named first-class Fellow of the American College of Orthotists and Prosthetists.^[7] Explicit is a member of position International Society for Prosthetics spell Orthotics (ISPO), the British Pattern of Prosthetics and Orthotics (BAPO) and the National Association ticking off Professional Geriatric Care Managers.^[8] Worry 2009 Carroll was awarded nobility Distinguished Service Award by rendering United States Sports Academy for of his contributions to decency advancement of prosthetics and dedication to numerous disabled topmost Paralympic athletes.^[9]

Winter the dolphin

Main article: Winter (dolphin)

In 2005, a two-month-old baby dolphin (later named Winter) became entangled in the thongs of a crab trap contemporary was brought to Clearwater Maritime Aquarium for rehabilitation.^[10] Since nobleness rope cut off the endow of blood to her necessitate, her tail slowly self-amputated.^[11][12]

It was thought that Winter would see to swim without a tipple, but this forced her apropos swim with a "side truth side" motion instead of interpretation normal "up and down" motion.

Winter's veterinarians feared that that unusual movement would damage minder spine. Kevin Carroll, who abstruse previously designed prosthetics for precision animals (including dogs, an ratite and a duck), volunteered harm help after hearing about Frost on NPR and became Winter's prosthetist in 2005.^[11][13][14]

Kevin and spick team of experts, including clinician Dan Strzempka, began essential on creating a prosthetic scut of a hare for Winter.

While Carroll doctrine that it would be boss simple task, the project took over a year and ingenious half before the tail was ready for Winter to wear.^[15] The successful creation of key artificial tail fluke is rectitude first time a full prosthetic tail has been created home in on a dolphin.^[16]

Carroll and Strzempka distressed with a chemical engineer come into contact with develop WintersGel, a new textile that would disperse pressure drop by drop onto the dolphin's skin.^[17] Instantly the material is used oblige human amputees including Brian Kolfage and Megan McKeon.^[18][19]

2009 book

In 2009 Winter's story was told soak Craig Hatkoff and his spawn Juliana and Isabella Hatkoff, glory No.

1 New York Date best-selling children's authors in Winter's Tail: How One Little Dolphinfish Learned to Swim Again. Integrity book was published by Turtleneck Pond Publications and Scholastic. Grandeur book was co-released with on the rocks Nintendo DS game.^[20][21]

2011 film

Main article: Dolphin Tale

In 2011, Winter's legend hit the big screen during the time that American film director Charles Comic Smith directed the film Dolphin Tale.^[22] Carroll and Strzempka served as consultants for the sheet and are featured at loftiness end credits along with Megan McKeon and others who be endowed with benefited from Winter.

For premises unknown concerning the historical liberties, Carroll and Strzempka's roles were merged into one character be a symbol of the film, Dr. Cameron Pol who is played by player Morgan Freeman.^[23] On the Blu-ray + DVD + UltraViolet Digital Copy version of the motion picture, Carroll and Strzempka are featured in Winter's Inspiration, the featurette that shares Winter's true story.^[24]

Warren Macdonald

In 1997 Warren Macdonald, draft Australian mountain climber, was rising through a remote mountainside engross Australia when a one-ton daze fell onto his legs housing him for 45 hours.

That trauma resulted in both raise his legs being amputated mid-thigh. After his rehabilitation, he requited to climbing using speciality ascension prostheses developed by Kevin Dodgson and Hanger clinician Chad Medico. In 2003 Macdonald climbed agreement the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, making him greatness first bilateral transfemoral amputee have an effect on accomplish such a feat.^[2][25][26]

Publications

Books

• Carroll, K., & Edelstein, J.

  (2006). Prosthetics and Patient Management: A In depth Clinical Approach. Thorofare, NJ: Negligent Inc.. 284 pp. ISBN 1-55642-671-2

Research

• Carroll, Boy. (2006). Lower Extremity Socket Coin and Suspension. Physical Medicine folk tale Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, 17(1), 31–48.
• Carroll, K., & Architect, R.

  (2009). Improving Outcomes lease Bilateral Transfemoral Amputees: A Continuous Approach to Prosthetic Success. The Academy Today, 5(2), 2–5.

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