Derrick Campana, aka Dr Dolittle, travels the world to help animals that have lost the use of one or more limbs.
Unfortunate animals that no longer walk e a man with such a big heart. In the States, in Virginia, he is now a legend, but he is the Doctor Dolittle - per century Derrick Campana - does not ride the wave of success and goes around the world to help crippled animals.
The name of Derrick Campana is linked (also) to that of the pony Angel MarieTrampled by her newborn mother, her front legs were so badly damaged that she was no longer able to walk. But the challenge was immediately taken by Campana, who, like the character of the eponymous remake played by Eddie Murphy, had rather started his career as a orthopedic technician and prosthetist making prostheses for humans.
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Campana is now the CEO of Animal Ortho Care in Sterling, Virginia, which creates prosthetics and fine-tunes non-invasive techniques to rehabilitate animals that are unable to walk. And she confesses watching Angel Marie walk after the treatment: “Seeing her walk now and having her here today on her paws is just a dream come true. A miracle".
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Animal Ortho Care's goal is to provide the highest quality orthoses and prosthetics to help animals live a happy life and satisfied, correcting limb functions after trauma, illness or simply in old age.
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And if at the beginning of his career Campana had worked with and for humans, he later discovered his real passion with animals. Her first non-human patient was a black Lab with a congenital deformity, but then there was a dog with multiple joint contractures on all four limbs, and Mia, an amputated dog.
Since then Derrick has traveled the world to help animals that have lost the use of one or more limbs and is dedicated to all the puppies who need them.
A wonderful job, don't you think?
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