At the UNBROKEN Center, a defender from Truskavets received prosthetic knees with electronic devices
Kyiv • UNN
Ivan Golyk, a 41-year-old veteran who lost both legs as a result of an injury, received modern prostheses at the UNBROKEN Center. The prostheses have electronic knee joints that allow for maximum reproduction of natural movements.
At the UNBROKEN rehabilitation center, 41-year-old Truskavets defender Ivan Holyk, who lost both legs as a result of an injury five months ago, received prosthetic knees with electronic knees. UNN reports with reference to the Lviv City Council.
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Ivan Holyk, a 41-year-old veteran from Truskavets, served in the 80th separate airborne assault brigade of the Galician Army. He lost his legs when an enemy tank shell hit his dugout in February.
As a result of the injury, he lost his feet, shrapnel got into his legs, and Ivan had to have his legs bandaged above the knees. The defender remained conscious all the time before the evacuation, which was 9 hours. He lost consciousness in an ambulance and came to in Dnipro.
To save the life of the severely wounded soldier, whose kidneys were already failing, doctors had to amputate his limbs at the level of the hips. After a long treatment in Dnipro and Kyiv, Ivan was sent to Lviv for rehabilitation and prosthetics at the UNBROKEN Center.
The patient has been working with physical therapists at the UNBROKEN Center for 4 months. At first, they prepared the defender for prosthetics, and now they are helping him to master walking on artificial limbs. Ivan's prostheses have electronic knee joints that allow to reproduce natural movements as much as possible.
The defender was fitted with such modern technological prostheses thanks to donations from Ukrainians to the dobro.ua charity platform Prostheses for the Unbreakable.
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