Company helps those with limb loss compete in extreme sports
February 29th, 2008
From Entrepreneur.com:
Athlete Eric Robinson has helped build a $10 million prosthetic foot company, but he didn’t stop there. He also led College Park Industries of Michigan to found the O&P Extremity Games — referring to orthotics and prosthetics — open to people who have lost a limb or have some sort of limb difference.
Many of College Park’s customers are older people who have diabetes and lose a foot to gangrene, but there are a number of young, athletic people who have lost limbs in accidents. It was that demographic that Robinson and his 55 employees found themselves talking to in recent years about the company’s high-tech product, which costs around $6,000.
“We were always talking to people wearing the product, and they were all telling us how they would participate in sporting events,” says Robinson. “They were skateboarding, skydiving, and they’d tell us that our product enabled them to go out and continue doing extreme events.”
The Extremity Games include such events as rock climbing, surfing and kayaking.
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