Garrison's Prosthetic Services

Biography of Kevin S. Garrison C.P., L.P./Author
Certified & Licensed Prosthetist

Mr. Garrison became involved in prosthetic work when he was 19 years old and employed by a local prosthetic facility for three years in El Paso, Texas. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles in 1974, subsequently transferring to Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, where he finished his prosthetic studies in 1977.

After successfully completing his formal prosthetic education, Mr. Garrison practiced prosthetics for several years before founding Garrison’s Prosthetic Services, Inc. in 1986 in North Miami Beach, Florida. Ten years later he opened an additional prosthetic facility in Pompano Beach, Florida. He continues owning and operating a successful prosthetic care company today.

Among his many accomplishments, Mr. Garrison has a United States patent for a Quick Change Mechanism for a Limb Prosthesis and had an article published in the Journal of the American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association titled “Prosthetic Modifications for the Treatment of Marginally Viable Below-Knee Amputations”, Volume 37, Number 2, 1983, p. 53. In 2005 he wrote an inspirational autobiography called It’s Just a Matter of Balance which is now recommended reading by the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists.

Mr. Garrison has been living in South Florida since 1980; he is married and has five children -- two daughters and three sons. His middle son is a Staff Sergeant presently in the U.S. Air Force (Military Police) who has served three tours of duty in Iraq.