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The team has now moved onto a trial with transhumeral amputees (amputation above the elbow), with the hope that median nerve transfer in transradial amputation could potentially provide thumb control. [1] With all previous patients being upper limb amputees, the team also hopes to move on to lower limb amputees eventually. [1]
There are a number of different types of amputations that describe the location of the amputation. A transhumeral amputation is an above the elbow amputation. It is sometimes referred to as AE. A transradial amputation is a below the elbow amputation. A transfemoral amputation is an above the knee amputation, and is sometimes referred to as AK.
Upper-extremity prostheses are used at varying levels of amputation: forequarter, shoulder disarticulation, transhumeral prosthesis, elbow disarticulation, transradial prosthesis, wrist disarticulation, full hand, partial hand, finger, partial finger. A transradial prosthesis is an artificial limb that replaces an arm missing below the elbow.
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 ...
In the Soviet Union, the first arm replantation after a traumatic transhumeral amputation was performed by Nicolai L. Volodos and his colleagues on 19 January 1977 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The case was described in the central press, and became the catalyst for microsurgery as a surgical specialty in Soviet medicine. Soon after that, new ...
He also headed the amputee clinic at the Liberty Mutual Insurance (now Liberty Mutual Group), Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and found that individuals with transradial amputations were using prostheses to recoup much more of their lost functioning than were individuals with transhumeral amputations. His frustration with existing devices for ...
Causes of amputation (26 P) D. Dismemberments (3 C, 55 P) P. Prosthetics (5 C, 103 P) Pages in category "Amputation" The following 27 pages are in this category, out ...
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