02/13/2026
It was a great week seeing our long time friend, retired Staff SGT Heath Calhoun, from Tennessee! Heath is more like a family member, he chose to be treated by Clinical Director Chad Simpson twenty years ago!
When we met Heath at a conference in Minneapolis in 2006, he was using a wheelchair and had all but given up on being a functional prosthetics user.
Since his injury in Iraq in 2003, he struggled to get a good socket fit from multiple providers; some advising revision surgery to his limbs.
Chad’s extensive experience, creativity and skill greatly benefitted Heath; fitting him with sockets he could wear 10-18 hours a day and ultimately becoming a full-time bilateral above knee prosthetics user!
For Heath, the choice to try one more time to get prosthetics, this time designed by Chad, was a turning point in his life!
This week we again designed a new pair of direct skin fit suction sockets and with Genium X4 knees. Heath has seen technology advance; from his first pair of original C-Leg knees, to helping to develop and improve the early prototype Genium X2 knees, to X3 and now X4. Each time getting incremental improvements, helping him to regain more mobility independence!
We greatly appreciate Heath’s loyalty over two decades of clinical care; its an honor to be his provider of choice and we certainly thank him for his service and sacrifice while serving in the U.S. Army!
