"Imagine you’re an amputee and the prosthetist is more interested in how many people he can schedule in a day than if your prosthetic is fitting you pain & trouble free. The more amputees he saw the bigger his bonus was. If I had a problem, I would have to wait until there was an opening in their schedule that that could be a one day to three weeks. This was the trouble I had with my first prosthetist.
I got lucky and found a prosthetist with Next Step O&P. Kevin Hartman who made sure not only if the fit was right, not causing pain and was trouble free. When I did have a problem, I could come right in and have it corrected. As a highly active person, that alone is priceless.
Kevin is always open to explaining another kind of foot I wanted to try. If he didn’t know about the foot he would find out everything he could. I now have the most advanced prosthetic ankle because of Kevin Hartman."
I got lucky and found a prosthetist with Next Step O&P. Kevin Hartman who made sure not only if the fit was right, not causing pain and was trouble free. When I did have a problem, I could come right in and have it corrected. As a highly active person, that alone is priceless.
Kevin is always open to explaining another kind of foot I wanted to try. If he didn’t know about the foot he would find out everything he could. I now have the most advanced prosthetic ankle because of Kevin Hartman."
-Dave Dunville
"I have been a Next Step client since an accident four years ago caused a below knee amputation. I have always felt well taken care of. Anyone I have ever spoken with has made me feel like my questions were the most important questions they were working on that day.
When I met Kevin Hartman, I had just gotten out of the hospital where I had spent the last 5 weeks after a motorcycle accident. He came to my parent’s home where I was staying to continue to recover. He answered all of my questions and calmed my fears about what the process I was about to go through entailed.
During the last four years, Kevin and Next Step have been supportive, creative, and tenacious when the situation called for it. It has been a long road, but with Next Step and Kevin in my corner, I have attended the Amputee Coalition National Conference in Arizona, and run a 5k!"
When I met Kevin Hartman, I had just gotten out of the hospital where I had spent the last 5 weeks after a motorcycle accident. He came to my parent’s home where I was staying to continue to recover. He answered all of my questions and calmed my fears about what the process I was about to go through entailed.
During the last four years, Kevin and Next Step have been supportive, creative, and tenacious when the situation called for it. It has been a long road, but with Next Step and Kevin in my corner, I have attended the Amputee Coalition National Conference in Arizona, and run a 5k!"
- Shannon Schwanbeck