General Prosthetic Information
What does Prosthetic mean?
Prosthetic is basically a Greek word. What is ‘addition’.
The main cause for an amputation?
What is vascular disease? (diabetes and peripheral arterial disease)
Most common type amputation?
What is below knee?
Factors taken into consideration while designing a prosthesis for an amputee.
What are weight, health, lifestyle, age and gender?
Acts as an interface that goes between a person's skin and his or her prosthetic
What is a prosthetic liner?
What is the most common type of amputation.
What is an below the knee amputation
Sometimes referred to as computer-controlled knees
What is microprocessor knees?
The feeling of the missing limb still being attached to the body.
What is phantom limb sensation?
Ways by which you can hold a prosthetic leg on your limb.
What is suction, elevated vacuum and pin locking?
It estimated that 1 in every 200 people have suffered from this in the United States
What is limb loss?
These materials make up most prosthetics.
What is titanium, aluminum and carbon fiber. ?
Rating system used by Medicare to indicate a person’s rehabilitation potential.
What are K Levels?
The oldest prosthetic wear was found in the year 2000 in the city of Cairo. It was a prosthetic toe made of these materials
What is wood and leather?
About how many people undergo an amputation each day in the USA?
What is 500?
The average life of a prosthetics
What is 3-5 years?
The purpose of a "shrinker"
What is prevents swelling in the intact limb when the prosthesis is not attached.
The Amputee Coalition of America estimates that there are approximately this amount of lower extremity amputees living in the United States
What is 2 Million?
This American nonprofit organization based in Manassas, Virginia was founded on January 1, 1989. Its mission is to reach out to and empower people affected by limb loss to achieve their full potential through education, support and advocacy, and to promote limb loss prevention
What is the Amputee Coalition?
Formerly known as Endolite
What is Blatchford?
Played Kevin Carroll in the movie Dolphin Tale?
Who is Morgan Freeman?
Leading causes of amputation
What are cardiovascular disease and diabetes?
The first prosthetic knee joint that was controlled by microprocessor technology debuted in this year
What is 1997?
The first osseointegration procedures for both lower and upper-limb amputees were performed by Dr. Brånemark’s and his team at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in this country
What is Sweden?
What is the ratio of males to females with amputations?
What is 77% of all amputations are performed on males ?
After Winter’s tail became entangled in a crab trap in 2005, two Hanger Clinic prosthetic experts stepped in to create a prosthetic tail, restoring her ability to swim. The real life survival story of Winter and her innovative prosthetic team of prosthetists Dan Strzempka and Kevin Carroll inspired this 2011 hit movie.
What is a Dolphin Tale?