First veteran to get new high tech prosthetics is from Greenfield

First veteran to get new high tech prosthetics is from Greenfield
A grenade explosion in Iraq took Derick Hurt's legs.

STORY: Veteran from Greenfield is first to use new, lighter, stronger, faster artificial legs
by Paula Morehouse and Justin Haase, KY3 News

pmorehouse@ky3.com
8:41 p.m. CST, January 18, 2012

WATERLOO, Iowa -- An Iraq war veteran from Greenfield, Mo., has taken another step forward in his recovery. Derick Hurt is the first veteran in the country to get the latest technology in prosthetics.

Nearly 10 years ago while serving in Iraq, a grenade blew up under Hurt's Humvee, shattering his legs. Hurt's right leg was amputated; he fought Army doctors to save his left one.

In 2009, he decided to have his other leg amputated because the pain was diminishing his quality of life.

(The video shows some of Hurt's progress over the years. KY3 News visited him during his rehabilitation at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., a few months after he was injured. Other video shows him in the intervening years learning to walk with prosthetics.)
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