Amputation is the surgical removal of all or part of a limb or extremity such as an arm, leg, foot, hand, toe, or finger. About 1.8 million Americans are living with amputations. Amputation of the leg -- either above or below the knee -- is the most common amputation surgery. Reasons...
We investigated the effect of severity and form of mutilating hand injuries on functional recovery and return to work, and the usefulness of an injury-severity score in predicting these outcomes.MethodsWe reexamined patients in whom finger amputation or near amputation had been treated with ...
Their worst symptoms will be gone and they can function well, but they often have lingering numbness in the finger tips or tenderness at the point of incision or permanent loss of grip strength. Surgeons claim that the surgery was a success because the worst symptoms of Carpal Tunnel were ...
Yesterday, the vascular doctor / professor of vascular surgery basically liked what he saw with the foot, yet also told us that the big toe was basically dead, and he brought up the option of surgical amputation vs auto-amputation or part of the big toe and perhaps tips of other toes. W...
(EMG) signals from finger extensor muscles (extensor digitorum communis, EDC) as a means of quantifying changes in corticospinal and interhemispheric connectivity. cMEP and iMEP measure physiologic excitability of crossed and uncrossed corticomotor pathways the paretic EDC, respectively. IHI measures the ...
Sensory NAPs from the replanted digit were not different from those of the normal digit, nor was a retrograde effect observed. The present data indicate that digital nerve function recovery was incomplete in toe transplantation and nearly complete in digit replantation. The reasons for the ...
Pads at the top of the crutches are 3 fingerbreadths below the armpit and press against the side of the chest. Incorrect use of crutches is shown on the right. Broken foot. Proper use of crutches for non-weight bearing. The knee on the injured leg is bent to keep the injured foot ...
A fingertip amputation means that a portion of the fingertip, including part or all of the nail, has been removed from the rest of the finger. The bone may or may not be visible. A nail avulsion occurs when a portion of the nail is lifted off the nail bed or is sticking out of the...