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Patients often need to have limbs amputated to save them from advanced malignant neoplasms and severe limb infections, or due to the failure to repair severe limb trauma. However, efforts should be made to maintain limbs where possible, and to minimize loss of function if amputation is required. We provide the latest developments in limb amputation for this purpose. This book provides expert commentary on the following issues: cutting to prevent large-scale amputations in peripheral arterial disease and diabetes, optimal wound treatment in severe trauma, troubles of prostheses due to stump overgrowth in amputation in children.We hope this book will help physicians dealing with limb illness and trauma, and all amputee patients.

Amputation. --- Extremities (Anatomy) --- Surgery.

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Written by experienced physiatrists, prosthetists, and therapists, this book provides an introduction to the field of amputee care and prosthetics. Dedicated chapters guide you through prescription of prostheses for the various levels and types of amputations in both the lower and upper extremity and address recent advances in functionality and safety. Pre- and post-operative care, prosthetic troubleshooting, gait issues and medical management of the residual limb are also addressed. With concise key information highlighted throughout, this handbook is a welcome point of care resource or study

Amputation. --- Artificial limbs. --- Artificial extremities --- Extremities, Artificial --- Limbs, Artificial --- Orthopedic apparatus --- Prosthesis --- Orthopedic surgery

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Limb loss can occur due to trauma, infection, diabetes, vascular disease, cancer and other diseases. Lower limb amputation is relatively common and has a profound impact on a person's life, regardless of the cause. Feelings of loss and grief, difficulties in learning to walk with an artificial limb, and readjustment to an interrupted life all pose considerable challenges. Nevertheless, there are countless stories of people who have successfully overcome these problems. This book provides the practical knowledge needed to cope with the life changes caused by lower limb amputation. It demystifie

Leg --- Extremities, Lower --- Extremity, Lower --- Legs --- Limb, Lower --- Limb, Pelvic --- Lower extremities --- Lower extremity --- Lower limb --- Lower limbs --- Pelvic limb --- Pelvic limbs --- Extremities (Anatomy) --- Amputation

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The Miracle of the Transplantation of the Black Leg, a posthumous miracle performed by the saints Cosmas and Damian, is best known from the Golden Legend of Jacobus the Voragine (1265). From the early Middle Ages on, artists have been particularly inspired by De Voragine's description of this miracle. Their works can be found in churches, monasteries, and musea, mainly in Italy, Spain, and Southern France. These artful representations have fascinated Kees Zimmerman, retired trauma surgeon, inspiring him to travel through Southern Europe exploring them. In this way he has gathered an impressive collection of photographs of paintings, sculptures, and other art and religious objects. This book offers over 80 reproductions of representations of the Miracle of the Black Leg, quite a number of which have never been published before. Articles by art historians (De Jong, Fracchia), medievalists (Santing), and an Introduction by Zimmerman himself, shed light on different aspects of the legend.

Leg --- Extremities, Lower --- Extremity, Lower --- Legs --- Limb, Lower --- Limb, Pelvic --- Lower extremities --- Lower extremity --- Lower limb --- Lower limbs --- Pelvic limb --- Pelvic limbs --- Extremities (Anatomy) --- Transplantation --- Cosmas, --- Damian, --- Damiano, --- Damianus, --- Damien, --- Côme, --- Cosma, --- Cosmo, --- Kosmas, --- Kozma, --- Cosmas [s.] --- Damien [s.]

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Diseases --- Joints --- Upper Extremity --- Skeleton --- Extremities --- Musculoskeletal System --- Body Regions --- Anatomy --- Musculoskeletal Diseases --- Shoulder Joint --- Shoulder