Former soldier David Sneddon lost a leg after being shot in Afghanistan and has had a prosthetic limb for years. But pain and sores led him to a pioneering new method of attaching his artificial leg.
His prosthesis allowed David to kick a football about with his two sons and play golf but he was having increasing problems with his socket.
The traditional socket is made to fit on to the amputee's stump but even the best can slip and become uncomfortable or worse. The Eyes Forward Foundation is looking forward to this socket-less procedure called "osseointegration" it involves a surgeon inserting a titanium rod implant directly into the bone of am amputate to make its way across the pond.
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