The single greatest obstacle to progress in amputation surgery has been the surgeon's lack of prosthetic knowledge . While a small number of surgeons throughout the years have become involved and, in fact, have made significant contributions to prosthetic improvements, the vast majority of amputations continue to be performed by surgeons uninformed in the area of prosthetic rehabilitation . Thi...

Background and objective: Soldiers are known to always sacrifice to defend the integrity of their nation and in the process may lose limbs even their lives. Injuries resulting from war are a major cause of disablement in armed forces personnel. This paper presents the outcome of a study on the Occupational Therapy Rehabilitation Programme (OTRP) of the post-war lower limb amputees at the Armed ...

Extremities are the most often affected during the war (50-75%). War wounds are more severe and their treatment more complicated. The mistreatment of war wounds with fractures can lead to many complications where chronic osteitis is most serious and its treatment is very expensive and even uncertain. In order to prevent a wrong treatment we used one protocol, which is combination of the protoco...

OBJECTIVE To highlight the prevalence and impact of skin disease at the stump site in patients who have undergone amputation. DESIGN A cross-sectional health questionnaire of Vietnam War veterans with stump dermatoses at least 38 years after major limb amputation. SETTING A research registry of veterans with combat-related amputations who agreed to participate. PARTICIPANTS Recruitment be...

BACKGROUND Popliteal artery war wounds can bleed severely and historically have high rates of amputation associated with ligation (72%) and repair (32%). More than before, casualties are now surviving the initial medical evacuation and presenting with severely injured limbs that prompt immediate limb salvage decisions in the midst of life-saving maneuvers. A modern analysis of current results m...