Abstract" I was pretty pissed off after the accident so I was just determined that it wasn't going
to stop me from doing anything," says Craig. Two months after the accident, he was back …

TO THE EDITOR: The following represents my personal views and, I feel, also reflects the
feelings of many other physicians I have spoken with. There is a responsibility to present a …

Physicians are required to judge their patients' capacity at every encounter. Most of the time
physicians make this judgment implicitly. We assume that the patient who seeks help for her …

Before a physician prescribes a prosthesis, he should consult with the person who is going
to build the prosthesis and with those who will train the patient to use it. Together they must …

The first amputation was performed sometime far back in prehistory, likely by someone
pressed into ser-vice before medicine was even an established craft. We have evidence of …

Amputation has been long used to alleviate both congenital and acquired ailments of the
extremities. The Indian poem “Rig-Vieda” is the first written record of an amputation …

Many physicians today are faced with increasing numbers of amputees in their practice.
Until very recently little was available in the literature on the management of the amputee …

Five years ago, on a muggy August morning in Hicksville, NY, Ann Kornhauser was out
walking her golden retriever when bones in her left foot suddenly cracked. Ms. Kornhauser …

These patients must either pay the difference between a device's cost and the insurance
coverage or forgo prostheses that could provide a higher quality of life. Some use old …

What is most important with an upper-extremity prosthesis? Probably the ease with which
the patient can hold, grasp, move and coordinate it. If he can do these things he will be able …