George Gatewood has spent much of his life helping people become mobile. Not with transportation in the usual sense, but with prosthetics and orthotics. When he attended Auburn University, George studied physiology.
“I was an athlete and became interested in athletic training and studying the body in motion. Later, as a physical therapist for the Hughston facility, I was introduced to orthopedics and orthotics. They sent me to Northwestern University in Chicago,” explained Gatewood.
Throughout his career, he worked with some of the best, including Dr. Jack Hughston, considered the Father of Sports Medicine, and founder of the Hughston Clinic, and with the McCluskey family, all with excellent reputations in the field of orthopedics.
Those experiences led him to start Gatewood Prosthetics in 2000 for a total of 36 years in the business of helping people walk and sometimes run. He served as a Team Prosthetist for the 1996 Paralympics…