Run With Erica, Run Because You Can

From David Rotter, Scheck & Siress prosthetist:

I am fortunate to work with so many remarkable individuals. One of them is Erica Van Zuidam (second from right in the photo, between me and Jason Wening of Scheck & Siress.)

Summer is one of the most difficult seasons for Erica. She has a lot less skin surface area to dissipate heat, and she’s been doing a great job dealing with that challenge as she runs as best she can.

On Saturday, her efforts paid off as she successfully was among 90 runners in a 5K race organized by the Kinesiology Student Association at the University of Illinois, where she is a senior. "Run With Erica, Run Because You Can," as the event was named, received very good coverage from The News-Gazette in Champaign.

In addition to Erica and Jason, who finished first in the 30-39 year-old age group, joining us was one other amputee runner, Patrick, and two other Scheck & Siress staff members, Ania Jarosz, a patient care coordinator at our UIC office, and Leah Witte, an orthotist at our Rush office.

The News-Gazette has done some other outstanding and