A 24-year retrospective study of amputees was conducted at the Prosthetic and Orthotic Unit of the Kowloon Rehabilitation Centre, the first and largest rehabilitation centre in Hong Kong. A review was made of 1821 patients and a rising trend of amputee population was demonstrated probably related to the population growth. The ratio of lower limb to upper limb amputees was 1.83 to 1. The mean ag...

The ability to predict human gait, particularly impaired human gait, has the potential to improve rehabilitation/training outcomes and to reduce prosthesis/orthosis development costs. This work presents a walking model of moderate complexity that accurately captures both sagittal plane joint kinematics and whole body energetics for healthy human walking. The six-link, left-right symmetric model...

The most critical factor in rehabilitation of the geriatric lowerextremity amputee on a prosthesis is preservation of the knee joint. Several reported series have established that most amputations below the knee will heal despite extensive vascular occlusive disease [I-41. Satisfactory healing appears to be a direct result of attention to atraumatic surgical detail, especially in the careful ma...

Abstract Introduction To identify the preoperative factors that influence functional rehabilitation after Major Lower Limb (MLL) amputation. Method This retrospective study analyzed all patients referred post-amputation to an amputee centre over a period of 1 year. The level outcome at 6 and 12 months were recorded using SIGAM (Special Interest Group in Amputee Medicine) grading. Data on variou...

Century. However, it was Silas Weir Mitchell, a Neurologist who first used the term ‘phantom’ in fiction rather than in scientific literature in 1871. Lord Nelson is reputed to have said that his phantom was a direct proof of the existence of the soul. If an arm can survive physical annihilation, why not the entire person? With recent scientific developments, Neuro-physiologists and Neuro-psych...

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