Type 1 and 2 diabetes are common conditions, but other types of diabetes are less known. Despite different causes, the results are the same: your body cannot produce enough or properly use insulin to keep blood sugar levels from getting too high or too low. Uncontrolled blood sugar can cause...
Severe knee, leg, or foot injuries typically require surgery, intense therapy, and a long recovery. Compensation values can range from $10,000 for simple fractures to $10 million for traumatic amputations. Knees are particularly vulnerable to injury in motor vehicle crashes and trip and fall acci...
Decorative fireworks predominantly resulted in burns ( N = 82; 68%), and explosive fireworks in soft tissue lacerations ( N = 24; 25%), fractures ( N = 16; 17%), and amputations ( N = 14; 15%). Patients injured by explosive and homemade fireworks were most often admitted to a ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristic differences between the IP and C-Leg by making a comparative study of energy consumption and walking speeds in trans-femoral amputees. The subjects consisted of four persons with traumatic trans-femoral amputations aged 17 - 33 years ...
Complications affected 13% of the patients of the Dacron group and 4% of the PTFE group. All six graft infections and all seven graft double-limb thromboses occurred in Dacron grafts. Anastomotic aneurysms, amputations, and late graft revisions occurred with greater frequency in patients with ...
Forty-two male and eighteen female patients, a total of sixty, met the inclusion criteria for the study, with thirty-five having transfemoral and twenty-five having transtibial amputations. The cohort's average age was 48 years, with a spread from 25 to 70 years, and its follow-up span...
Application of platelet-rich gel to enhance healing of trans metatarsal amputations in diabetic dysvascular patients. Int. Wound J. 2013, 10, 612–615. [CrossRef] [PubMed] 12. Houdek, M.T.; Wyles, C.C.; Stalboerger, P.G.; Terzic, A.; Behfar, A.; Moran, S.L. Collagen and ...
There are many different types of wounds, ranging in severity from mild to fatal. The most dangerous types of wounds are avulsions...
While amputation may be a marker for the severity of systemic illness, it could be a marker for quality of primary care provided to diabetic patients, since a majority of diabetic lower extremity amputations are thought to be preventable.
STUDY DESIGN: A 3-factor (foot type, speed, and mode of ambulation) repeated-measures experimental design was used. OBJECTIVES: To compare the differences in energy expenditure, gait efficiency, and relative exercise intensity in persons with transtibial amputations with various prostheses. BACKGROUN...