Prosthetics with Purpose: Delaney Kerby

By Jasmine Stevens  LUBBOCK, Texas. – As a child, you’re typically learning your ABC’s, 1-2-3’s, and relishing in excitement over a new 64-pack crayon box. For Delaney Kerby, a sophomore early childhood development major from Dallas, living an ordinary life became one lived with extraordinary parts. Kerby may be an average, everyday student taking on […]

Prosthetic Limb Advances Assist Amputees

“That’s where it all started was a wooden socket just like a pirate, you know, a peg leg.” Kent Phillips is a certified and licensed prosthetist at Lubbock Artificial Limb and Brace. His father-in-law, Cecil McMorris, is a bilateral below-the-knee amputee from the Korean conflict and started the business in 1962. Phillips said prosthetic technology has […]