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Hemipelvectomy
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Intelligent plantar pressure offloading for the prevention of diabetic foot ulcers and amputations
Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Christian Köchli, Sofia Lydia Ntella, Kenny Jeanmonod, Bhawnath Tiwari
The high prevalence of lower extremity ulceration and amputation in people with diabetes is strongly linked to difficulties in achieving and maintaining a reduction of high plantar pressures (PPs) which remains an important risk factor. The effectiveness o ...
2023Enhancing functional abilities and cognitive integration of the lower limb prosthesis
Silvestro Micera, Stanisa Raspopovic, Francesco Maria Petrini, Giacomo Valle, Federica Barberi, Dario Bortolotti
Lower limb amputation (LLA) destroys the sensory communication between the brain and the external world during standing and walking. Current prostheses do not restore sensory feedback to amputees, who, relying on very limited haptic information from the st ...
2019Fascicular nerve stimulation and recording using a novel double-aisle regenerative electrode
Objective. As artificial prostheses become more refined, they are most often used as a therapeutic option for hand amputation. By contrast to extra- or intraneural interfaces, regenerative nerve electrodes are designed to enable electrical interfaces with ...
Iop Publishing Ltd2017Preliminary evidence for a fronto-parietal dysfunction in able-bodied participants with a desire for limb amputation
Olaf Blanke, Peter Andreas Brugger
BACKGROUND: Reports of able-bodied participants with the persisting desire for limb amputation raise legal and ethical questions that are partly due to insufficient empirical knowledge about the condition. Here, we searched for potential neurological mecha ...
British Psychological Society2009