conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Outstanding, Pennsylvania, Athor with the genre: Romance, Contemporary?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Run, Don't Walk'
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: the first four paragraphs for this book
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Run, Don't Walk
  I recognized his gait immediately. The wedding march! He didn't have the skill or strength to balance on his C-Leg very long, so he wasn't going to risk anything by balancing on it long enough to step past it with his other leg. Instead he wedding-marched around.
  In spite of having a thirty-thousand-dollar prosthetic knee, he stiff-legged it around the clinic like he was wearing a peg, never allowing the top-of-the-line knee to bend. Or as we would say at Walter Reed, he was "walking like a pirate." This was alternatively called "going retro," "bringing it back," or "totally vintage." Strung together in a sentence, you might hear, "What's up, Captain Hook? You're totally retro today. Does your socket hurt? Are you touching bottom? Are you bringing it back? Going vintage?" No one else might understand us, but our patients sure did.
  He was at Walter Reed because, unbeknownst to me, he was a high-level DOD official chosen to receive the new X2. One of my patients had tested out an initial prototype of the X2 a few months earlier, so I had some experience with the knee, which was why he had been sent to me for some pointers. Only, he'd been sent over with no introduction. I had no idea who he was, why he was getting the X2, or why I had been summoned over to watch him walk.
  I watched him walk and then laughed. "Where's the wedding?" He said he was hopeful the new X2 would help him walk better, and I retorted with a chuckle, "You walk like you're walking on a peg. So it doesn't matter if you have a new knee or an old knee, you won't walk any differently."
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: another paragraph
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: I made a mental note to call Casey later and discuss the scenario with her. Her internship with us was over, and she was working on a rotation at a slow-moving outpatient clinic in Florida, treating low-back-pain patients. A place where a patient would never dare grab her and carry her around like a bundle of firewood.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: the last three paragraphs. Start with the sentence 'For taking me on as a scruffy first-year physical therapy student and spitting me out three years later as a licensed physical therapist, I am indebted to the University of Maryland Department of Physical Therapy and Rehab Sciences'.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: For taking me on as a scruffy first-year physical therapy student and spitting me out three years later as a licensed physical therapist, I am indebted to the University of Maryland Department of Physical Therapy and Rehab Sciences. Thank you for training me in the career that I fell in love with.
  A high five to my Ambassador of Cool, Erin Lane, who took me clothes shopping before I went to New York City.
  Adele Levine is a practicing physical therapist. She received her master's in Physical Therapy from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2001 and her doctorate in Physical Therapy from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2005. In 2009, she became a board credentialed Orthopedic Certified Specialist by the American Physical Therapy Association, and has been a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association since 2003.