The Salt Lake Tribune(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Luke Pratt, from Cove Fort, runs with Teagan Young, a physical therapy student at the University of Utah, during the fourth annual Utah Adaptive Mobility Clinic at Skyline High school. The clinic allows anyone with "lower extremity limb loss or limb difference" or amputees without legs, to practice walking and running. Saturday, June 1, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Pam Hennessy, from South Jordan, runs an obstacle course, during the fourth annual Utah Adaptive Mobility Clinic at Skyline High school. The clinic allows anyone with "lower extremity limb loss or limb difference" or amputees without legs, to practice walking and running. Saturday, June 1, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) participants practice bouncing up and down during the fourth annual Utah Adaptive Mobility Clinic at Skyline High school. The clinic allows anyone with "lower extremity limb loss or limb difference" or amputees without legs, to practice walking and running. Saturday, June 1, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kristen Black-Bain assists Larry Christensen, along with Victoria Vega, from the University of Utah, during the fourth annual Utah Adaptive Mobility Clinic at Skyline High school. The clinic allows anyone with "lower extremity limb loss or limb difference" or amputees without legs, to practice walking and running. Saturday, June 1, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Greg Balliaine from Sandy, is assisted by Katie Johnson from the University of Utah, during the fourth annual Utah Adaptive Mobility Clinic at Skyline High school. The clinic allows anyone with "lower extremity limb loss or limb difference" or amputees without legs, to practice walking and running. Saturday, June 1, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Victoria Vega, from the University of Utah, runs with Jeremy Wayman from Kearns, during the fourth annual Utah Adaptive Mobility Clinic at Skyline High school. The clinic allows anyone with "lower extremity limb loss or limb difference" or amputees without legs, to practice walking and running. Saturday, June 1, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kristen Black-Bain assists Jeremy Wayman, from Kearns, during the fourth annual Utah Adaptive Mobility Clinic at Skyline High school. The clinic allows anyone with "lower extremity limb loss or limb difference" or amputees without legs, to practice walking and running. Saturday, June 1, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jeremy Wayman, from Kearns, is assisted by Kristen Black-Bain, during the fourth annual Utah Adaptive Mobility Clinic at Skyline High school. The clinic allows anyone with "lower extremity limb loss or limb difference" or amputees without legs, to practice walking and running. Saturday, June 1, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Shane Nye, from Ogden, practices running, during the fourth annual Utah Adaptive Mobility Clinic at Skyline High school. The clinic allows anyone with "lower extremity limb loss or limb difference" or amputees without legs, to practice walking and running. Saturday, June 1, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kaylene Baker, Helena, Mt, runs through an obstacle course, during the fourth annual Utah Adaptive Mobility Clinic at Skyline High school. The clinic allows anyone with "lower extremity limb loss or limb difference" or amputees without legs, to practice walking and running. Saturday, June 1, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Pam Hennessy, from South Jordan, leads a group of runners around the track, during the fourth annual Utah Adaptive Mobility Clinic at Skyline High school. The clinic allows anyone with "lower extremity limb loss or limb difference" or amputees without legs, to practice walking and running. Saturday, June 1, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Grace Ku helps Kaylene Baker, Helena, Mt, along with Will Cook, during the fourth annual Utah Adaptive Mobility Clinic at Skyline High school. The clinic allows anyone with "lower extremity limb loss or limb difference" or amputees without legs, to practice walking and running. Saturday, June 1, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Larry Christensen, from Sandy, practices running, during the fourth annual Utah Adaptive Mobility Clinic at Skyline High school. The clinic allows anyone with "lower extremity limb loss or limb difference" or amputees without legs, to practice walking and running. Saturday, June 1, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Matthew Brewer, a bilateral above-knee amputee and athlete from Huntington Beach CA, spoke to the group at the fourth annual Utah Adaptive Mobility Clinic at Skyline High school. Brewer conquered cancer and drug addiction, and learned to walk again after losing both legs. Saturday, June 1, 2019.
(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Grace Ku helps Kaylene Baker, Helena, Mt, along with Will Cook, during the fourth annual Utah Adaptive Mobility Clinic at Skyline High school. The clinic allows anyone with "lower extremity limb loss or limb difference" or amputees without legs, to practice walking and running. Saturday, June 1, 2019.
More than 50 Utah amputees received a chance to run and walk with prosthetic limbs Saturday at the fourth annual Utah Adaptive Mobility Clinic on the track of Skyline High School.
The event, organized by Hanger Clinic, a prosthetics patient-care provider, let amputees at all levels of ability meet health care professionals and try out prosthetic devices that may make mobility easier.
Matthew Brewer, a bilateral above-knee amputee and athlete who has competed in surfing and triathlon events, appeared at the event. He talked about surviving cancer and drug addiction, and learning to walk again after losing both legs.
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