LI company makes prosthetics even more lifelike
Quick ReadHicksville company A Step Ahead has helped amputees lead more normal lives by creating lifelike prosthetics.
Photo credit: Charles Eckert | Sam Cila went to A Step Ahead for his prosthetic device. Cila was severely injured outside the Green Zone in Iraq where he and his fellow soldiers were stationed five years ago. An improvised explosive device detonated and he suffered a devastating injury to the left side of his body. Forty surgeries over a three-year period could not restore function to his hand, so he chose to have it amputated. He has been fitted with several special "bionic" hands equipped with microprocessors that allow him to excel as a competitive cyclist and triathlete. (March 16, 2010)
Iraq War vet demonstrates prosthetics
High-tech prosthetics innovator on LI
As she awaited a bus on May 22, 2005, in Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay, Adriana Coffey's life changed in an instant: A drunken driver mowed her down, crushing her right leg and leaving amputation the only alternative for the Dix Hills resident.
About two months later and thousands of miles away, Sgt. Sam Cila, an American soldier on patrol outside the Green Zone in Baghdad, stepped on an explosive...
