A powerful story from Dr. L. Andrew Smith about the profound impact of ART on one of his patients. Great work, Dr. Smith! 🙌👏 #REPOST 📷 by @thevillagebacksmith: Patient: “My neck hurts and it’s difficult to turn to the left” Me: Lifts head, checks neck, feels tightness, checks left shoulder, follows tightness, checks left forearm, sees divot…..”whoa, what happened here??” Patient: “When I was 12 I came off my horse and landed on my arm, it broke in multiple places and came through the skin”. Me “Gross”. Patient: “That’s not the half of it, because I had eaten an apple before my ride, they couldn’t sedate me and perform surgery for six hours, and in that time, in the hospital, it got infected. It was two weeks, in the hospital, before they could do the surgery. The nurses spoke with me about the possibility of amputation and life with a prosthetic. So when I came out of surgery unable to flex my elbow past 90 degrees, which meant I could do my ponytail, but I couldn’t touch m...