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Anne Mekalian
and Dana Cross.

SPECIALIZED CARE

confident and more patients were sent

Dana Cross, PT, MSPT, is Anne's physical

to me. It developed from there. I got

an amputee support group. On their

therapist and is specially trained and

more patients, got more experience and

first meeting, Dana thought Anne had

experienced in helping amputees gain

got more training."

only lost her arms because she walked

Anne emailed Dana to ask about

strength and independence as well as

Dana also credits her education

so well. "I was at UM Rehab & Ortho

find the tools they will need to adapt

to the team at University of Maryland

Institute (then Kernan Hospital) for

despite their loss.

Rehabilitation & Orthopaedic Institute.

seven weeks to learn to walk," recalls

"I just started talking to different

She started to see patients post-sur-

Anne. "Six years later, I wanted to run

prosthetists; there's not a lot of train-

gery to get them started. Today, they

again and needed to develop some

ing in the area for working with ampu-

have an amputee walking school. She

core strength to do so. My prosthetist

tees, so the prosthetists became my

was able to learn on that level and bring

recommended Dana."

primary resource," she says. "After

that skill back to UM Upper Chesapeake

some training, I became more and more

Health's rehabilitation program.

8  MARYLAND'S HEALTH MATTERS

The pair have worked together
for over a year and a half evaluating

†The University of Maryland Rehabilitation Network at UM Upper Chesapeake



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