Sentences with phrase «above knee amputations»
A new study in today's issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery found minimal risk for severe infection with osseointegrated implants — a newer prosthetic system, press - fitted directly into the femur bone — that enables bone growth over a metal, robotic prosthetic limb in patients with above knee amputations.
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Someone with an above knee amputation would have to physically / manually unlock the knee to sit and could lock or unlock in standing or walking depending on his / her needs.
a case involving an above knee amputation following negligent vascular care — damages exceeded half a million pounds.
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For more than 600 years, patients with amputations above the knee received a prosthesis that fit over the skin and soft tissue of the amputation stump.
Im a disabled Army veteran with an amputation above my left knee.
After the smoke cleared from the explosions, Bauman was alive but his blast injuries required a double above - the - knee amputation.