Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Hip muscle exercises could help amputees improve functional mobility
Strengthening hip muscles could be key to improve mobility in people with a below-the-knee amputation, new research has shown.
Feb 21, 2023
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News tagged with limb amputation
Diabetes
New bandage for foot ulcers could revolutionize diabetes treatment
Researchers at Queen's University Belfast have designed a new bandage treatment, known as a scaffold, to treat diabetic foot ulcers, which is cost-effective while improving patient outcomes. Produced by 3D bioprinting, the ...
Oct 7, 2022
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Surgery
For amputees, a new kind of surgery may allow better control, sensation
(HealthDay)—A new type of surgery offers amputees better control of muscles that remain after surgery, and of their prosthetic limbs, its inventors say.
Mar 9, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Veterans more likely to lose limbs to disease than warfare
The number of Scottish veterans who sustain an amputation through disease is far greater than the number who have lost limbs in conflict, according to new research.
Jan 26, 2021
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Medical research
Definition of pain updated for first time in four decades to make it more inclusive
Johns Hopkins Medicine pain experts have joined the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) and collaborators worldwide to make a subtle but important update to the definition of "pain" for the first time in ...
Sep 15, 2020
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Cardiology
Fewer veterans dying or requiring amputations for critically blocked leg arteries
Between 2005 and 2014, the number of veterans who were hospitalized, required amputation or died due to critical blockages in leg arteries declined, according to new research published today in Circulation: Cardiovascular ...
Feb 13, 2020
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Neuroscience
Rerouting nerves during amputation reduces phantom limb pain before it starts
Doctors at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine are pioneering the use of primary targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) to prevent or reduce debilitating phantom limb and stump pain in amputees.
Dec 27, 2018
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Medical research
A prosthetic arm that decodes phantom limb movements
About 75 percent of amputees exhibit mobility of their phantom limb. Using this information, in collaboration with physicians, researchers from CNRS and Aix-Marseille University have developed a prototype capable of detecting ...
Nov 29, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Certain diabetes drugs linked to increased risk of lower limb amputation
Use of sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors to treat type 2 diabetes is associated with an increased risk of lower limb amputation and diabetic ketoacidosis (a serious diabetes complication) compared with another ...
Nov 14, 2018
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Neuroscience
A new theory for phantom limb pain points the way to more effective treatment
Dr. Max Ortiz Catalan of Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed a new theory for the origin of the mysterious phenomenon of phantom limb pain. Published in the journal Frontiers in Neurology, his hypothesis ...
Sep 6, 2018
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