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Hello, my guest today is an orthotist and prosthetist who spent years helping people adapt to life with artificial limbs and muscular skeletal

supports before a near fatal accident left him relying on both. This cruel twist of fate might

have derailed many, but Jim Ashworth Beaumont has drawn on reserves of resilience and determination

forged long before his accident. Growing up in Scotland, Jim left

school with no qualifications and little idea of what to do next. In a decision, he describes

as transformative, he joined the army and served as a Royal Marine. Returning to civilian life some

years later, he was determined to go back to education. He put himself through night

school before earning a place

to study prosthetics and orthotics at the University of Strathclyde. Later, alongside clinical work at

London's Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Jim completed a master's in neuro-rehabilitation

and a PhD in health studies, driven by a fascination with how the human body adapts under pressure.

Then in 2020, while training for a triathlon, Jim was involved in a catastrophic cycling accident that nearly killed him, and cost him an arm.

But he says the experience gave him an insight few clinicians ever get, profoundly changing the way he now supports patients through recovery.

Jim Ashworth-Bomont, welcome to the Life Scientific.

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