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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]
A Virginia woman who lost her hand after defending herself in a savage shark attack in Florida is desperately raising money to pay for a prosthetic hand - after insurance denied to pay for a new limb.
In 1989, at the age of 14, her mother enrolled her with the NSW Amputee Sporting Association and she commenced her swimming career. [1] She was coached by Mick Maroney and later by Greg Hodge. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] Her first major competition was the NSW State Games held at Narrabeen Sports Centre where she won gold in four swimming events and two ...
With the left-arm amputation woman mentioned above, her phantom limb pain returned after surgery. [2] Though at a lesser degree and resolved within 4 weeks, it still presented a serious risk because it is unclear whether it will resolve in other future patients. [ 2 ]
A Kentucky woman said she is just happy to be alive after a kidney stone turned into an infection that would lead to a quadruple amputation. "I've lost my legs from the knees down bilaterally and ...
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 ...
The Krukenberg procedure separates the bony remnants of the forearm into a makeshift pincer. The procedure involves separating the ulna and radius for below-elbow amputations, and in cases of congenital absence of the hand, to provide a pincerlike grasp that is motored by the pronator teres muscle.
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 .