Both rehabilitation techniques and prosthetic devices have improved because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, said Steve Gard, the executive director of Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center in Chicago.

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Kevin Murray, a prosthetist at the UK's National Center for Prosthetics and Orthotics, says advances in materials and technology have been dramatic since he began his career.

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