I know this is a baseballl site but......

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“The doctor said, ‘We’re going to give you an option. We can try to salvage your leg, but you won’t be able to use your foot, and you’ll be in pain the rest of your life. Or you can have your leg amputated and do everything you could before.’ I asked, ‘So I could get out and play hockey again? And he said, ‘I’m sure you could.’
“I’m probably the only person you’ll ever meet who opted to have their leg amputated so they could play hockey, and that was my whole goal. I spent two and a half years at Walter Reed, and everyone there knew that my first goal in life was to get back on the ice.”

For Bowser, and many others, hockey has been the best therapy imaginable.

“When you first lose your leg, it’s very difficult to trust an object that isn’t yours. So you often compensate by putting most of your weight on the strong side,” Bowser says. “Playing hockey helps me transfer weight from my good leg to my amputated one without thinking about it.”

And the benefits go beyond the physical conditioning.

“The best way I can describe it is when I get out on the ice and I’ve got my gear on, all people see is a hockey player, and I feel normal,” he says. “I play pickup with ‘two-leggers,’ as I call them, and a lot of time people have no idea I have a prosthetic. The only way people would know is if they see me in the locker room.”