POA Patient Spotlight – Hanna O’Brien

16-year-old Hanna O’Brien is a confident, caring and intensely spiritual young lady. People of all ages and backgrounds are drawn to her sweet nature and nurturing personality. Born with congenital limb difference, Hanna’s left leg extends just 3 inches below the knee-cap. Her right hand has only a thumb and her left hand has nubs where her index and middle fingers would be. Her parents believed from the beginning that

Blossom, Bilateral Amputee Dog, Takes Her New Legs for a Test Drive!, 8/8/2013

Meet Blossom, our first canine amputee patient!   Blossom lost her hind feet soon after birth. In May of this year she was relinquished to the SPCA and then adopted Rodney Purvis (an SPCA employee) as her new dad. Since then, Rodney, with the full support of the SPCA, has been on quest to get Blossom back on all four paws. Stan Patterson, CP and Steve Bremer, CO met with Blossom

POA’s Celeste Corcoran Is Taking her Life Back…One Step at a Time! Boston Strong!! 8/4/2013

We are so proud of Celeste Corcoran and all the great progress she made in just two weeks!   Friday, her last day at POA, was also a day of empowerment.  Stan Patterson had the honor of being her first haircut client in our makeshift salon. 🙂  After that, Stan taught Celeste to how drive a car with her prosthetic legs using the X3 microprocessor leg in ‘drive’ mode for the