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VOL 20 ISSUE 1
January 2013
BIXBY GLENPOOL JENKS SAPULPA NE Oklahoma’s Leading Consumer Newspaper
Don’t Suffer from Garage Door Grief
Have You Been Hurt?
Proper “springing” is critical to the function and lifespan of your garage door opener.
Attorney John Truskett focuses on personal injury and workers’ compensation cases.
By Duane Blankenship
By Sheryl Sowell
What’s more frustrating than preparing to leave the house for work or an appointment only to find that your garage door cannot be opened because the torsion spring has broken in half? You’ve probably experienced this “garage door grief” at one time or another. Chuck Billy of Assurance Overhead Doors is called upon to service a lot of garage doors with broken torsion springs that were the wrong size and specification for the job they were intended to do. “Torsion springs are critical to the operation of any garage door opener,” says Chuck. “We replace lots of broken torsion springs and motors that have worn out because they were doing more work than they were ever rated to do.” Chuck suggests going to your garage and visually (continued on page 22)
Many people suffer a serious injury and are unsure what to do next. If it is a result of someone else’s actions that causes you harm, the law empowers you to claim
Chuck Billy of Assurance Overhead Doors shows a garage door torsion spring that broke prematurely because it was the wrong spring for the door it was lifting.
compensation for damages, which may include loss of income, medical costs, property loss, pain and suffering, and emotional distress. It is vital to (continued on page 22)
Attorney and Counselor at Law John P. Truskett.
Knee Pain No More John Burgess lived with knee pain for 20 years before undergoing knee replacement surgery with Dr. LaButti. By Joshua Danker-Dake
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John Burgess of Tulsa underwent knee replacement surgery with Dr. Ronald LaButti in 2011 after over two decades of knee problems. “I was very active in high school sports,” Burgess says. “I graduated from high school in 1967 and went into the military, where there was a lot of intense training, and I stayed active in intramural sports. I didn’t have any knee problems then. After my military years, I played a lot of sports until I began to develop knee problems in the late 1980s.” Since then, Burgess has undergone two arthroscopic surgeries on each knee. “It seemed like every five years or
so, I’d have to have one or the other operated on. I finally quit playing sports around 1995 because of the knee problems.” In 2007, Burgess was informed he would probably not be able to have another arthroscopic surgery on his right knee, and would most likely have to have it replaced. “My knee pain was getting so severe that walking was becoming very difficult, and running was completely out of the question. I had tried all the over-the-counter medications I could find, but things continually worsened.” In 2011, Burgess went to see Dr. LaButti. “My supervisor had just undergone hip replacement (continued on page 22)
John Burgess is back to his bike after a successful knee replacement operation by Dr. LaButti.
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