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Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery.As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene.
An amputation between the knee and ankle joints transecting the tibia, or shinbone, is referred to as a transtibial amputation. In this situation, the patient may retain volitional control over the knee joint. The cause of amputation may dictate the length of the residual limb and the corresponding level of control of the prosthesis.
Body integrity dysphoria (BID), also referred to as body integrity identity disorder (BIID), amputee identity disorder or xenomelia, and formerly called apotemnophilia, is a rare mental disorder characterized by a desire to have a sensory or physical disability or feeling discomfort with being able-bodied, beginning in early adolescence and resulting in harmful consequences. [1]
Congenital amputation is the least common reason for amputation, but a study published in BMC Musculoskelet Disorders found that 21.1 in 10,000 babies were born with a missing or deformed limb between 1981 and 2010 in the Netherlands, [1] and the CDC estimates that 4 in 10,000 babies are born in the United States with upper limb reductions and ...
Amputee sportspeople have specific challenges that different from other types of disability sportspeople. The classes for ISOD's amputee sports classification system are A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8 and A9. The first four are for people with lower limb amputations. A5 through A8 are for people with upper limb amputations.
This is a list of people who lost a limb. It does not include people who lost a limb via a mortal accident or illness which killed them shortly thereafter or cases involving conjoined twins. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable.
Limb amputations are performed by surgeons when a traumatic injury such as a wound from war or a vehicle accident causes major tissue destruction or in instances of serious infection or disease.
In the United States each year, roughly 1 in 1,900 people are born with a limb difference, [1] and an additional 185,000 individuals experience a limb amputation. [2] Children's literature with representation of characters with upper limb differences help empower children to accept their own, as well as others', differences. [3]