This summer, Dankmeyer summer intern Cecelia Lamancusa undertook a project to work with some Dankmeyer patient volunteers to film a short video to express thoughts on the topic “What is a Prosthesis?”.

This video was conceived, written, filmed and edited in a very short period of time, as Cecelia’s summer program was only six weeks long. Using her iPad to do some filming herself, along with patient supplied video, and help from Cumberland office staff filming there, and iMovie on her Mac to edit, Cecelia was able to create a lovely piece of work to showcase several patients and the Dankmeyer philosophy that a prosthesis is more than a collection of hardware.

Our thanks go out to the patients who were able to respond on such short notice to contribute to thoughtful interviews in our offices, and to those who were willing but we were not able to coordinate with to meet the short deadline. Thanks to Danny Weiser, our Resident Prosthetist Orthotist, who did the voiceover; Dawn Miranda, Dankmeyer’s Prosthetist Assistant and a lower limb amputee herself; and Becca Frost, CPO and Heather Iman, Patient Services Representative in our Cumberland office who hosted and filmed several patients there.

Without further ado, please watch as Kenny Braitman, Sumner Handy, Joe Loibel and Dawn Miranda share their thoughts and observations around the concept “What is a Prosthesis?”