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Amputation: What It Is, Types, Risks & Recovery
Amputation is surgery to remove all or part of a body appendage, usually a limb or extremity (an arm, leg, hand or foot). You might need surgery to amputate a body part if it’s too sick or injured to save and it endangers other parts.
Amputations: Types, Causes, Recovery Tips, and More - Healthline
2022年3月31日 · While amputations are understandably sometimes tough to think about, they can be life saving. Keep reading to find out more about amputation types, risks, and recovery. What are the different...
Limb Amputation: Reasons, Procedure, Recovery - WebMD
2022年2月5日 · Amputation is the surgical removal of all or part of a limb or extremity such as an arm, leg, foot, hand, toe, or finger. About 1.8 million Americans are living with amputations. Amputation of...
Amputation - Johns Hopkins Medicine
Amputation is the loss or removal of a body part such as a finger, toe, hand, foot, arm or leg. It can be a life changing experience affecting your ability to move, work, interact with others and maintain your independence. Continuing pain, phantom limb phenomena and emotional trauma can complicate recovery.
Amputation - Wikipedia
Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a …
Amputation: Recovery and Rehabilitation - Johns Hopkins Medicine
Amputation can change your life, but you do not have to face the future without help. Whether you choose to have or not have a prosthesis, the physical medicine and rehabilitation team will work with you to regain as much of your mobility, well-being and independence as possible.
Amputation | Limb Loss - MedlinePlus
2024年12月10日 · People can lose all or part of an arm or leg for many reasons. Common ones include: Problems with the flow of blood through your body. These may be the result of atherosclerosis or diabetes. Severe cases may result in amputation (the surgical removal of a limb). Injuries, including from traffic accidents and military combat. Cancer. Birth defects.