In carrying out our mission, we strive to:
- Provide highly specialized, pioneering techniques to a wider range of children and adults who suffer from rare and neglected bone diseases, limb deficiencies and skeletal abnormalities.
- Promote public awareness of Dr. Dror Paley’s innovative medical procedures throughout the medical community, and to those who are afflicted.
- Educate and mentor orthopedic surgeons worldwide in the application of advanced techniques.
- Ease the financial burden by providing financial aid for housing, for qualifying families, while their children are being treated at The Paley Orthopedic and Spine Institute.
The funds from the unLIMBited Foundation are used in a variety ways to further our commitment to
- Ease the financial burden on patients by assisting them with housing (Tommy Fund)
- Support research and educational programming (Medical Innovation Fund)
Our story
At Team UnLimbited, we understand the practical, physical and emotional challenges faced by people born with limb difference – because we’ve experienced them ourselves. We know what it’s like to live with a disability. It’s what brought us together and continues to inspire the work we do.
Most of us are fortunate enough to give a hug with our own two hands, or feel the sand beneath our own two feet, but for others born with severe limb anomalies, performing life’s most basic actions is just simply not possible. For these children, limb saving and correction treatment is critical for a better quality of life. For many families though, access to these specialized surgical and rehabilitation treatments is not financially feasible.
AMPUTATION ALTERNATIVE
Limb lengthening and limb deformity correction is a very complicated process. Meticulous surgical technique, vigilant follow up, and aggressive rehabilitation are required for a successful outcome. The results of lengthening are highly dependent on the experience of the surgeon and his surrounding clinical staff. Dr. Paley has been performing lengthening and limb deformity correction surgeries for over twenty-five years. He is currently the most experienced limb lengthening surgeon in the world, having performed over 17,000 lengthening surgeries.
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