He discussed the collaboration behind the device, the limits of our evidence, and the need for affordability.

The article was less dramatic than the reporter had imagined, but it reached clinicians and community groups who were interested in actual services.

After publication, several veterans contacted us about the planned center.

One, a woman named Rosa Martinez, asked whether there would be programs for people who didn’t use prosthetic limbs.

Her injury affected balance and endurance, and she had spent years feeling that rehabilitation spaces assumed everyone shared the same needs.

We invited Rosa to join the advisory committee.