Valuable Listserve Links Prosthetic Rehabiliation Assistance to Russian Landmine Victim of Afghanistan Conflict
Tony Barr
Description
Collection
Title:
Valuable Listserve Links Prosthetic Rehabiliation Assistance to Russian Landmine Victim of Afghanistan Conflict
Creator:
Tony Barr
Date:
7/1/2001
Text:
Press Release
> International Institute for Prosthetic Rehabilitation of Landmine survivors
> (IPRLS)
> 781 297-1204; <Email Address Redacted>
>
> Barr Foundation
www.oandp.com/barr
>
> Ohio Willow Wood
>
> O&P Business World
>
>
> On February 06, 2001, Tony Barr, President, Barr
> Foundation, received an email from Julia Hilton: ...One more cry for help.
> I have cousin back in Russia who is Disabled Veteran of Afghanistan War.
> Vladimir is only 34 and very active (with Bachelor Degree in Dentistry). At
> 18 he lost both legs on minefield in Afghanistan and the all hospital
> history follows...).
> Tony placed a request on the OANDP-listserve, and it was picked up by
> Mark Pitkin, Founder and Director of the International Institute for
> Prosthetic Rehabilitation of Landmine Survivors (IPRLS), Tufts University
> School of Medicine. Mark and his Russian collaborators in St. Petersburg
> Albrech Institute of Prosthetics concluded that the case of Vladimir Kulemin
> meets their program' two major criteria.
> 1) Vladimir can not wear prostheses without revision of his stumps.
> 2) Local health care providers can not do the job.
>
> Dr. Konstantin Scherbina, Deputy Director of the St. Petersburg Albrecht
> Institute of Prosthetics, developed a service plan for Vladimir, and the
> work has begun.
>
> Tony Barr offered his assistance in providing prosthetic components, while
> the IPRLS paid for medical and prosthetic management, and biomechanical
> study before and after surgery.
>
> The Ohio Willow Wood (OWW) Company donated or discounted most of prosthetic
> component required. For the OWW, this case was an another charitable event
> in a long lasting but independent collaboration with both the IPRLS and with
> the Barr Foundation.
>
> For Tony and Mark, that was the first time they worked together.
>
> On June 17, Vladimir was discharged from the Clinic of the St. Petersburg
> Albrecht Institute of Prosthetics with two new prosthetic legs. After stump
> revision, he doesn't feel neuroma and the old scars pain any more.
> Biomechanical study confirmed that he loads both legs more symmetrically,
> and his gait pattern became more normal.
>
>
> As Mark Pitkin stated: That case is a typical example of the approach
> developed under the program US-Russian Prosthetic Rehabilitation Bridge
> between the IPRLS and the
> SPIP. Namely, a combined medical and prosthetic management performed at
> the center of excellence, using the best of the both countries in the
> field.
> Utilization of the mechanisms of local and federal support in addition to
> support from the honorable donors makes the bridge a uniquely efficient
> program economically vise.
Mark Pitkin, Ph.D.
Director IPRLS
> International Institute for Prosthetic Rehabilitation of Landmine survivors
> (IPRLS)
> 781 297-1204; <Email Address Redacted>
>
> Barr Foundation
www.oandp.com/barr
>
> Ohio Willow Wood
>
> O&P Business World
>
>
> On February 06, 2001, Tony Barr, President, Barr
> Foundation, received an email from Julia Hilton: ...One more cry for help.
> I have cousin back in Russia who is Disabled Veteran of Afghanistan War.
> Vladimir is only 34 and very active (with Bachelor Degree in Dentistry). At
> 18 he lost both legs on minefield in Afghanistan and the all hospital
> history follows...).
> Tony placed a request on the OANDP-listserve, and it was picked up by
> Mark Pitkin, Founder and Director of the International Institute for
> Prosthetic Rehabilitation of Landmine Survivors (IPRLS), Tufts University
> School of Medicine. Mark and his Russian collaborators in St. Petersburg
> Albrech Institute of Prosthetics concluded that the case of Vladimir Kulemin
> meets their program' two major criteria.
> 1) Vladimir can not wear prostheses without revision of his stumps.
> 2) Local health care providers can not do the job.
>
> Dr. Konstantin Scherbina, Deputy Director of the St. Petersburg Albrecht
> Institute of Prosthetics, developed a service plan for Vladimir, and the
> work has begun.
>
> Tony Barr offered his assistance in providing prosthetic components, while
> the IPRLS paid for medical and prosthetic management, and biomechanical
> study before and after surgery.
>
> The Ohio Willow Wood (OWW) Company donated or discounted most of prosthetic
> component required. For the OWW, this case was an another charitable event
> in a long lasting but independent collaboration with both the IPRLS and with
> the Barr Foundation.
>
> For Tony and Mark, that was the first time they worked together.
>
> On June 17, Vladimir was discharged from the Clinic of the St. Petersburg
> Albrecht Institute of Prosthetics with two new prosthetic legs. After stump
> revision, he doesn't feel neuroma and the old scars pain any more.
> Biomechanical study confirmed that he loads both legs more symmetrically,
> and his gait pattern became more normal.
>
>
> As Mark Pitkin stated: That case is a typical example of the approach
> developed under the program US-Russian Prosthetic Rehabilitation Bridge
> between the IPRLS and the
> SPIP. Namely, a combined medical and prosthetic management performed at
> the center of excellence, using the best of the both countries in the
> field.
> Utilization of the mechanisms of local and federal support in addition to
> support from the honorable donors makes the bridge a uniquely efficient
> program economically vise.
Mark Pitkin, Ph.D.
Director IPRLS
Citation
Tony Barr, “Valuable Listserve Links Prosthetic Rehabiliation Assistance to Russian Landmine Victim of Afghanistan Conflict,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 6, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/217023.
