Tag: prosthetics

Limb Maker Changing Lives One Prosthetic at a Time

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—A workplace accident changed Christopher Thornton’s life, but he found hope through the miracle of prosthetics and one limb maker, Brian Horton. Thornton told The Epoch Times in an interview on July 10 that he was involved in a forklift accident almost three years ago and after three operations he was faced with a…


The Growing Possibility of a Real 6 Million Dollar Man

Steve Austin was a U.S. astronaut who was gravely injured when his spacecraft crashed back to earth. He was rebuilt, almost from the ground up by government-approved experimental surgeries, giving him powerful prosthetics. The “Six Million Dollar Man” first aired in 1973, starring Lee Majors, and it ran for five seasons. I remember that show,…