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amputation of the lower limb between the hip joint and the knee joint, commonly referred to an above-knee amputation hip disarticulation amputation of the lower limb at the hip joint trans-pelvic disarticulation amputation of the whole lower limb together with all or part of the pelvis, also known as a hemipelvectomy or hindquarter amputation
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Claudia Mitchell (born 1980) is a former United States Marine whose left arm was amputated near the shoulder following a motorcycle crash in 2004. She became the first woman to be outfitted with a bionic arm. [1]
Mullins, a 41-year-old mother of two, has lost her arms and legs in what she has described as a "perfect storm.” After getting treatment for a kidney stone, it got infected and she became septic.
An Oklahoma woman had to have her arms and legs amputated after a tick bite caused a life threatening infection. 40-year-old Jo Rogers was on a hiking trip with her husband July 4th weekend when ...
Mandy Horvath (born June 10,1993) is a Colorado based American bi-lateral above knee amputee, creative writer, public speaker, actress and mountaineer. She is notable as the first female bi-lateral amputee to summit the Manitou Incline, Pikes Peak (twice), the Statue of Liberty stairwell to the crown, and Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, without the use of prosthetic equipment- using her arms and ...
Marilyn Gillies Carr (born 16 December 1941) is a Scottish woman from Dundee.She was born without arms or hands and uses her feet for all activities of daily living. [1]She appeared with Douglas Bader in the documentary film Two of a Kind in 1971, which contrasted his life as a double-leg amputee with hers as a person with no arms.
A 2020 Government Accountability Office report put the number at just under 3,000 post-9/11 amputees. But caring for this group — not just when they are injured, but so they can sustain a ...