Sentences with phrase «instead of amputation»

Not exact matches

In this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silence.

Researchers have identified the cause of chronic, and currently untreatable, pain in those with amputations and severe nerve damage, as well as a potential treatment which relies on engineering instead of drugs.

Today, instead of resorting to amputation in the first instance, surgeons use a technique called debridement to remove soft tissue, preserving as much of the limb as possible.

I am learning about creative ways to help preserve as much limb function as possible using prostheses instead of full leg amputation as the only solution to trauma to distal extremities.

The 2010 reforms modified the definition of catastrophic impairment to include the amputation of an arm or leg, instead of two limbs as required before.

Instead, in the present circumstance wherein the majority of the population can not obtain affordable legal advice services provided by lawyers, an attitude and performance that says, «let them use alternative legal services,» is an invitation to a brutal revolution — a revolution that will bring about the amputation, if not the complete elimination, of law society powers, purpose, and prestige.