Miller Prosthetics & Orthotics

12/31/2025

Happy New Year from our team at Miller Prosthetics & Orthotics! We have had a busy few days to round out the year and are so thankful for the opportunity of working with individuals in our community to achieve their goals. We look forward to another great year of helping our patients take a step towards comfort!

12/19/2025

We are so grateful for everyone that makes the Amputee Center magic. Thank you Catherine Lang-Bigley for this post!

🌟 A Note From the Executive Director 📝

Some moments stop you in your tracks. They feel rare. Sacred. Like a vision quietly exhaling into real life.

This image of Mark and Nancy Miller, captured together in their element, is one of those moments. What you see here is not just a prosthetic adjustment or a conversation in progress. You are witnessing the birthplace of The Amputee Center all over again.

In the most authentic, unscripted conversations, between them this center was born. The passion and deep expertise of the owners of a prosthetic office who recognized a gap. A need for specific,Amputee focused, human-centered care. Not rushed. Not transactional. But intentional.

Here we see an adjustment to a double amputee’s prosthetic legs paired with something just as vital. A deep, honoring conversation with someone newly navigating limb loss. These are the moments where the real magic happens. Where trust is built. Where fear softens. Where community quietly begins.

Every person is different. Every day is different. Every challenge we face in loss is exchanged for the possibility of connection and belonging. But how often do you find professionals willing to slow down, to listen fully, to honor the whole human in front of them?

As Executive Director, I have the privilege of living inside this passion and witnessing this magic daily. One of my favorite quotes from Mark yesterday says it all:
“Rolling in and walking out !”

There are quiet days too. Days full of paperwork, grit, frustration, vision-casting, coordination, and behind-the-scenes work where the message could easily get lost. But the magic never does. It is always happening. Growing. Expanding.

Yesterday, it unfolded minute by minute as new faces entered the Center for the very first time. Parents. Family members. Support systems. People who walked in carrying uncertainty and walked out with relief.

I could go on forever about the work Mark and Nancy have done. But this image captures something most people never get to witness. The heart of it all. ❤️

A moment of rare magic.
And a gratitude beyond words

Catherine Lang-Bigley
Executive Director
The Amputee Center

12/17/2025

12/05/2025

Amputees and their families are invited to The Amputee Center's annual Christmas Party! Hope you can make it!

11/06/2025

Chili cookoff happening Now! We have 10 Chili’s. Come for lunch and vote on your 2 favorites!! 11-2 at amputee center. 2311 Ohio Ave ate b Parkersburg Wv 26101.

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween 2025!

10/27/2025

Cut and fluff today at in Belpre! A+!

10/24/2025

Piper was born without her front leg to a wonderful breeder, Breanna Wickham in Easley, South Carolina. Wanting to make sure Piper found the perfect home, Breanna listed her as a donation on an amputee group site. Thanks to our dear friend Crystal, we learned about Piper and applied — and were chosen!

We were thrilled, not only because we could give Piper a loving home, but because we could share her with our amputee community through The Amputee Center and Miller Prosthetics & Orthotics. We also had the unique ability to make her a prosthetic leg.

Because her residual limb is so high, we weren’t sure if a prosthesis would help or hinder her. But with Halloween approaching — and Piper’s pirate costume ready to go — she definitely needed a pirate leg!

So, our team got to work. My son, Alex Miller, CPO, scanned Piper’s chest with a 3D scanner and collaborated with Leo and the team at to design a chest harness. The first version was 3D printed at our Belpre, Ohio, office, but the material wasn’t quite right. While waiting for the reprint, Brad Moore, our talented technician and soon-to-be Pedorthist, filled the first print with plaster, built a soft-lined harness, and crafted a lightweight wooden peg leg — just in time for The Pirates of The Amputee Center Party!

But the project didn’t stop there. Our friend and master woodworker Frank Byers in Cincinnati searched far and wide for willow wood to turn a handcrafted leg for Piper — the same type of wood he used years ago for Keating’s first peg leg. Frank found the willow wood through his friend Jim Heart from Good Wood, Etc. Frank not only created a beautiful willow leg, but also made a second leg from cedar!

Today, the hand-turned willow and cedar peg legs arrived in the mail, along with our new TPU-printed harness from our Belpre office. Alex fitted the new harness and leg, and now Piper can proudly wears her elegant willow wood peg leg — just in time for Halloween 2025. 🎃🐾

Huge thanks to everyone who helped bring Piper’s “first pirate leg” to life — Alex, Brad, Leo and the Protosthetics team, and Frank Byers. You’ve made this little three-legged therapy dog even more inspiring for our amputee family. ❤️

10/18/2025

Piper the pirate dog

10/17/2025