SAR HP 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Peripheral Artery Disease, Hip, Shoulder Joint
29 Nov 2018
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2 million people in the us living with some sort of limb loss. African americans are 4 times more likely to have limb loss than white americans (maybe due to vascular diseases, for which they have a higher prevalence, or working in higher-risk industries). An amputation is loss of part of all of a body part. Shoulder disarticulation: the arm is taken off but the socket is still there so it is right at the shoulder joint (disarticulation means at the joint, where the bone ends). Above and below the elbow (at any point) Elbow disarticulation: removal at the elbow joint. Wrist disarticulation: removing the hand at the wrist joint. Partial hand: usually ngers, or part of the nger. You can function with the last three ngers than you can function without your thumb or fore nger (for which the account 80% of function). Tanspelvic: removing of half of the pelvis the the whole leg.
