Afghanistan vet injured by land mine undergoes experimental amputation
From: CBS Evening News - 05/29/2017
By: David Martin

Dr. Matthew Carty amputated Brandon Korona's leg in a six-hour operation at
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital in Boston. He used a new procedure that
could reinvent the science of amputations.

The new procedure connects the leg's front and back muscles to each other,
allowing them to keep working together and communicate about it with the
brain.

The goal is to connect Korona's stump to a new generation of smart
prosthetics, now under development at MIT, that would move like a human foot.

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