A PROSTHESIS FOR BELOW-KNEE AMPUTEES

A prosthesis for below-knee amputees.

Scotchcast P.V.C. interim prosthesis for below-knee amputees.

Adoption of newly available materials and knowledge, through trial and error experiment, sometimes can result in an increase of productivity as well as improvement of quality. This is often true in industry in general, and can also be true in the prosthetic field . This paper describes a fabrication system combining many widely used techniques (2,4,5,6) and accepted principles (3) and a few new...

Removable Rigid Dressing for Below-knee Amputees

According to the National Center For Health Statistics, there were 274,000 patients with amputations of major limbs in 1971 in the United States. This number rose to 358,000 in 1977. Kay in 1975 reported 53.8 percent of the 6,000 reviewed new patients had had amputa­ tions at the below-knee level. If the percentage and the number of amputees remained un­ changed, there would be at least 200,000...

Swimming devices for below-knee amputees.

The patellar-tendon-bearing prosthesis for below-knee amputees, a review of technique and criteria.

2 Technical Director, Prosthetics-Orthotics Research and Development Unit, Manitoba Rehabilitation Hospital, 800 Sherbrook St., Winnipeg 2, Man. At a recent meeting of the Workshop Panel on LowerExtremity Fitting (2), which is sponsored by the Subcommittee on Design and Development of the Committee on Prosthetics Research and Development, there was prolonged discussion of below-knee prostheses....