It is tucked away in downtown Bismarck and it could be one of the best kept secrets in central North Dakota.

Ryan Davidson has more on Great Plains Rehabilitation Services.

It could be one of the most under-utilized facities in Bismarck

Provided as a division of St. Alexius medical center, Great Plains rehabilitation service has a state of the art laboratory for orthotics and prosthetics as well as a showroom full of medical products and technology

The St. Alexius rehabilitiation services center is one of the largest medical products and services facility in the United States and they do most of their own work here in Bismarck

Todd jasper - "we are unique in that we do everything here in G-P-R-S and we don't send it out. And each brace is fit for that particular patient from the beginning initial visit to the fitting to the follow-ups. Everything is done here in our shop." From custom cushions for wheelchair bound patients..

(Kurt Schmidt) - "what we're able to do then is vacuum form the rest of the air out of the bag to make a hard impression of them and at that point we'll use a digitizer which more or less takes this digitized mold and puts it into the computer which in turn then we have a 3D version of that seating system" Braces to help those with muscular distrophy walk and stand...

And replacement and prosthetic limbs...

All created at great plains rehabilitation services

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