Sentences with phrase «prosthesis fit»

An employee should be able to attend prosthesis fittings and hair loss services where necessary, as well as emotional support services, through flexible working arrangements.

His rock - climbing abilities have actually improved, because his lightweight prostheses fit into crevices where a human foot can not.

Not exact matches

The skin grafts took a long time to heal, delaying the fitting of his first prosthesis until Aug. 1.

Patients with hearing loss and balance dysfunction are currently fitted with auditory prostheses and may be given balance rehabilitation therapy, but the outcomes are variable.

Before then, the researchers need to put a few finishing touches to the prosthesis, including fitting it more closely to the muscle signals from Barnes's arm.

«I didn't realise it was possible,» says Dennis Aabo Sørensen, who is so far the only person to have been fitted with the new prosthesis.

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.

When patients are fitted with a robotic prosthetic limb, they gain control over their prosthesis with the help of a communication pathway provided by a brain - computer interface, or BCI, implanted in the brain.

But the fit is poor, with less than 40 per cent of the prosthesis in contact with the bone, and the force surgeons use sometimes causes the femur to fracture.

In many cases, heterotopic ossification has formed at amputation sites making it difficult to fit prostheses.

Made with better - than - cotton modal fabric Pocketed to fit expanders, lightweight breast forms, and prosthesis 3 level front closure extension compression control Adjustable, convertible straps: traditional or criss - cross style for easy release Wide back bridge for added back and underarm support Full bust coverage Underwire free bra

Which makes it more difficult to fit a peg leg, or a prosthesis as the doctors insisted on calling it, though Jim had refused one anyhow.

The size of the bones as determined by x-rays must be large enough to fit the available sized of prosthesis.

Awards for these injuries depend on the place of amputation, and degree of post-op complications such as phantom pains and the ease with which a prosthesis can be fitted.

The hospital needs payment for the operation and he can not go to rehab to be fitted for prosthesis without IFH coverage.

Designing and fabricating dental prosthesis and ensuring that they fit patients properly are also my strong points.