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Army 1st Lt. Matthew Anderson, an infantry platoon leader with an injured lower leg, discusses how the Intrepid Dynamic Exoskeletal Orthosis brace has reduced his leg pain and enabled him to run again at the Center for the Intrepid in San Antonio, Nov. 10, 2011. Anderson's heel shattered when he stepped on a land mine in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in October 2010. He now plans to become a doctor so he can help others.

Army 1st Lt. Matthew Anderson, an infantry platoon leader with an injured lower leg, discusses how the Intrepid Dynamic Exoskeletal Orthosis brace has reduced his leg pain and enabled him to run again at the Center for the Intrepid in San Antonio, Nov. 10, 2011. Anderson's heel shattered when he stepped on a land mine in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in October 2010. He now plans to become a doctor so he can help others.

Army 1st Lt. Matthew Anderson, an infantry platoon leader with an injured lower leg, discusses how the Intrepid Dynamic Exoskeletal Orthosis brace has reduced his leg pain and enabled him to run again at the Center for the Intrepid in San Antonio, Nov. 10, 2011. Anderson's heel shattered when he stepped on a land mine in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in October 2010. He now plans to become a doctor so he can help others.

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