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he’s wearing. The elbows
have full range of motion,
along with a rotating wrist.
After being fitted for an
improved harness on his
closed hand and cupping a can
of San Pellegrino Thursday,
Jude shook the hands of older
brother Sawyer, father Mike,
doctor’s assistant Isaac Wom-
ack and Chi.
Need help or want to help? Dr.
Albert Chi is asking anyone who
needs an upper body prosthetic
or anyone who wants to help
make them to contact him at
chia@ohsu.edu
A hand up
Jude, who practices about
an hour a day with his new
arms, is short on words about
how the prosthetics will affect
his life. He used one of the
prosthetics last week to ride a
scooter gifted by OHSU down
the hall.
“This has helped me with
writing,” Jude said, adding his
new arm helps hold papers
while he writes with his left
hand. Asked what the hands
might now enable him to
do, Jude answered excitedly,
“Wrap presents.”
Jude is the youngest child of
Alivia and Mike Rochon, along
with Sawyer and sister Mia.
The couple adopted Jude from
a special needs group in Shang-
hai when he was a year old.
Alivia said she initially
wondered what she should do
to accommodate Jude’s disabil-
ity, but he has always found a
way to get things done; be it
riding a bike and playing on his
youth baseball team to writing
and tying his shoes. But Jude
recently was bullied by another
child, she said, which sapped
his confidence and led them to
start looking into prosthetics.
“It’s hard to see your child
lose that confidence,” she said.
“In addition to Dr. Chi giving
this to Jude to help him physi-
cally, what we’ve already seen
in him emotionally and in his
confidence, it’s already helped
him so much.”
Alivia’s sister, who works
at OHSU, connected the fam-
ily with Chi, a trauma sur-
geon, professor and nationally
renowned expert in prosthetics,
who relocated last year from
Johns Hopkins University. By
the time Jude received his first
prosthetic last week, he and his
family were being interviewed
by at least two television sta-
tions and The Oregonian.
“We don’t like the inter-
views, and the TV, and the
hoopla,” Mike said. “It’s for
Jude. But it’s sure comfort-
ing when you go up there and
you realize this guy (Chi) is all
about Jude and this tool.”
Enabling the Future
Chi is a member of Enabling
the Future, a global network of
volunteers using 3-D printers
to create free prosthetic tools.
“There’s this huge need for
children who have congenital
limb loss,” Chi said. “It doesn’t
make sense to build them an
expensive device they’ll grow
out of in one to two years.”
Chi said the budget pros-
thetics are meant more as tools
than fully functional limbs,
which can cost hundreds of
thousands of dollars. He is
developing more advanced
3-D-printed prosthetics incor-
porating electronics, and hopes
to have a new one available for
Jude in the coming year.
At Johns Hopkins, Chi
was the medical director of
the targeted muscle reinner-
vation program, where doc-
tors have reassigned nerves so
amputees can move prosthet-
ics by merely thinking about
which actions they want to per-
form. At OHSU, he focuses
on improved motor control
of prosthetics, including by
eyesight.
Chi said his work in
advanced and budget prosthet-
ics is equally important to him.
“My goal is to really
involve the community,” he
said. “Anyone in need, I can
build them something. I’m
hoping we can create a volun-
teer group, to provide this to
anyone in need. We can have
printing clubs in schools.”
He said anyone needing an
upper body prosthetic or want-
ing to help make them can con-
tact him directly at chia@ohsu.
edu
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Jude Rochon, center wearing No. 34, plays baseball with his team in Astoria Tuesday. Rochon is the first recipient in the
state of a 3-D-printed prosthetic arm made at an Oregon hospital. He practices using his new arm about an hour a day.
Edward Stratton/The Daily Astorian
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
Jude’s mother, Alivia Rochon, helps adjust the new
3-D-printed prosthetic arm that works in conjunction with
a harness that helps him control the hand.
Jude Rochon, left, shows off his new grip Thursday to fa-
ther Mike Rochon after being fitted for a new harness on his
3-D-printed prosthetic, provided for free by Oregon Health
& Science University’s Dr. Albert Chi, in the background.
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