Military personnel experiencing combat in Iraq and Afghanistan are suffering wounds that are much greater in number and variety than those endured by veterans of earlier wars. This circumstance is due, in part, to advances in medical science and technology. Soldiers, sailors and marines who suffered such severe wounds in earlier wars simply died because they were beyond the reach of then contem...

Although mechanisms of modern military wounding may be distinct from those of ancient conflicts, the infectious sequelae of ballistic trauma and the evolving microbial flora of war wounds remain a considerable burden on both the injured combatant and their deployed medical systems. Battlefield surgeons of ancient times favoured suppuration in war wounding and as such Galenic encouragement of pu...

There are approximately 1.6 million lower extremity amputees in the United States. Lower extremity amputees are subject to increased physical demands proportional to their level of amputation. Lower extremity amputees have a 6-fold higher risk of developing radiographic osteoarthritis in the ipsilateral hip and a 2-fold risk of developing radiographic osteoarthritis in contralateral hip when co...

background providing care for patients with chronic disability affects caregivers’ social lives and relationships and can lead to poor health and lower quality of life. objectives in this study, our goal was to assess the quality of life in spouses of war veterans with bilateral lower limb amputations to find factors affecting caregivers’ quality of life. patients and methods in a cross-section...

The origin of rehabilitation in Japan can be traced to the early 1930e, when [)r . Kenji Takagi, then Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Tokyo, urged the rnedioal profession and society in general to support the work of restoring independence to physically handicapped children . Dr. Takagi coined a new word, "Ryo-iku," taking the first part (ryo) from a Japanese word meaning m...

Background: Through-knee amputation provides a longer lever arm and improved muscle control of the limb compared with above-knee amputation. Through-knee amputation also allows use of a total end-bearing prosthesis, which avoids the ischial pressure and suspension belts required of the above-knee amputation prosthesis. Several reports in the European literature tout the superiority of the throu...

Objective-  To study the effect of digit amputation on animal survival, and distribution of   lesions on limbs, days in milk and parity in operated cows.   Design- Retrospective descriptive study.   Animals- Thirteen cows in a dairy herd consisting 1100 lactating Holstein cows.   Procedures- Digit amputation by using a loop wire after inducing local intravenous anesthesia. Results- Digits of ...