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Employment status, job characteristics and work-related health experience of people with a lower limb amputation in the Netherlands [PDF]

, 2001
Objectives: To describe the occupational situation of people with lower limb amputations in The Netherlands and to compare the health experience of workings and nonworking amputee patients with a nonimpaired reference population.
Boonstra, A.M., de Vries, J., Eisma, W.H., Groothoff, J.W., Göeken, L.N.H., Schoppen, T.   +5 more
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Can real-time visual feedback during gait retraining reduce metabolic demand for individuals with transtibial amputation? [PDF]

, 2017
The metabolic demand of walking generally increases following lower extremity amputation. This study used real-time visual feedback to modify biomechanical factors linked to an elevated metabolic demand of walking in individuals with transtibial ...
Choi, Harmony S., Darter, Benjamin J., Esposito, Elizabeth R., Wilken, Jason M.   +3 more
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Major Limb Amputations: A Tertiary Hospital Experience in Northwestern Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2012
Major limb amputation is reported to be a major but preventable public health problem that is associated with profound economic, social and psychological effects on the patient and family especially in developing countries where the prosthetic services ...
Chalya, Phillipo L, Chandika, Alphonce B, Dass, Ramesh M, Gilyoma, Japhet M, Mabula, Joseph B, Mbelenge, Nkinda, Ngayomela, Isdori H   +6 more
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Osseointegration Following Transfemoral Amputation After Infected Total Knee Replacement: A Case Series of 10 Patients With a Mean Follow-up of 5 Years

Arthroplasty Today, 2022
Background: Management of total knee replacement (TKR) infection may sometimes prompt knee fusion (KF) or transfemoral amputation (TFA), both associated with low mobility and quality of life (QOL).
Muhammad Adeel Akhtar, MBBS, FRCSEd, Jason Shih Hoellwarth, MD, Kevin Tetsworth, MD, FRACS, Atiya Oomatia, BEng Biomedical, Munjed Al Muderis, MB, ChB, FRACS   +4 more
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Wartime Amputations [PDF]

Military Medicine, 1999
This paper outlines the causative factors, incidence, and localization of extremity amputations of wounded persons treated at the Osijek University Hospital (Eastern Slavonia) during 1991 and 1992. The medical documentation of 5,024 patients was analyzed. Of these, 1,560 patients were treated in the hospital (31.0%). A total of 1,916 extremity injuries
S, Jovanovic, B, Wertheimer, Z, Zelic, Z, Getos   +3 more
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Surgical Management of Diabetic Foot Ulcers: A Tanzanian University Teaching Hospital Experience. [PDF]

, 2011
\ud \ud Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) pose a therapeutic challenge to surgeons, especially in developing countries where health care resources are limited and the vast majority of patients present to health facilities late with advanced foot ulcers.
Chalya, Phillipo L, Mabula, Joseph B, Dass, Ramesh M, Kabangila, Rodrick, Jaka, Hyasinta, McHembe, Mabula D, Kataraihya, Johannes B, Mbelenge, Nkinda, Gilyoma, Japhet M   +8 more
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Sensitivity of a Subject-specific Ankle Sprain Simulation to Extrinsic Versus Intrinsic Biomechanical Factors

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021
Ankle sprains are the most common musculoskeletal injury in sport and military activity, despite existing prophylactic strategies. The purpose of this report was to develop a probabilistic simulation of lateral ankle sprains during single-limb drop ...
Adam J. Yoder, Adam J. Yoder, Anthony J. Petrella, Shawn Farrokhi, Shawn Farrokhi, Shawn Farrokhi   +5 more
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Motivations and barriers to prosthesis users participation in physical activity, exercise and sport : a review of the literature [PDF]

, 2012
The UK will host the Paralympics in 2012 and the Commonwealth Games in 2014 showcasing the talents of elite athletes and aiming to inspire the population to become involved. However, low levels of physical activity (PA) are prevalent: only 40% of men and
Anthony McGarry, Bandura A, Berbrayer D, Biddle S, Couture M, Crocker P, David Burns, Dyer B, Hanrahan SJ, Hopper C, House of Commons, Kegel B, Kegel B, Kevin Murray, Mastro JV, McAuley E, McCartney G, Nanette Mutrie, NHS The Information Centre, Ogilvie D, Osborough CD, O’Donovan G, Pasek PB, Ruddell JL, Sarah Deans, Seligman MEP, Sousa AI, Sports Council, Health Education Authority, and Allied Dunbar, Tatar Y, Walker JL, Webster JB, Wetterhahn KA   +31 more
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Translumbar amputation [PDF]

Cancer, 1990
Six patients underwent translumbar amputation (TLA), a life-saving procedure, after standard modalities of therapy failed to control the progression of the disease. The primary diagnoses were as follows: pelvic arterial-venous (A-V) malformation, 1; sacral chordoma, 3; giant cell tumor of the sacrum, 1; and paraplegia with squamous cell cancer arising ...
J J, Terz, M J, Schaffner, R, Goodkin, J D, Beatty, B, Razor, A, Weliky, C, Shimabukuro   +6 more
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Clinical characteristics and risk factors of lower extremity amputation in the diabetic inpatients with foot ulcers

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023
ObjectivesTo analyze clinical characteristics of the diabetic inpatients with foot ulcers and explore the risk factors of lower extremity amputation (LEA) in West China Hospital of Sichuan University.MethodsA retrospective analysis was performed based on
Hongping Gong, Hongping Gong, Yan Ren, Zhenyi Li, Panpan Zha, Raju Bista, Yan Li, Dawei Chen, Yun Gao, Lihong Chen, Xingwu Ran, Chun Wang   +11 more
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