After a workplace accident changed his life forever, a North Texas man is using technology to learn to walk again.
On Wednesday, Eddie Garcia walked between guard rails at the Hanger Clinic in Dallas as a prosthetic team analyzed each step to fine-tune his new microprocessor-controlled legs.Garcia was in a workplace accident in Oklahoma last year. The 49-year-old veteran crane operator from Mansfield was trapped under his crane. Efforts to move the crane to free him failed, so a surgical extraction team that was called in took over.
"You don't go to a scene expecting to amputate two legs," Dr. Lindsay Davault said."She's the one who saved my life. She's the one who amputated my legs to get me out of the crane."Download NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
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