Amputation: What It Is, Types, Risks & Recovery - Cleveland Clinic
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.
Q&A: What to Expect When Facing an Upper or Lower Limb Amputation
Partial hand amputation: includes fingertips or part of the fingers. The thumb is the most commonly lost digit, which limits grasping ability. Metacarpal amputation: removal of the whole hand, leaving the wrist intact. Wrist disarticulation: involves removing the hand on the wrist joint.
Upper Limb Amputation - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Aug 8, 2023 · For upper limb amputations, trauma is the leading cause, accounting for 80% of acquired amputations, occurring in men aged 15 to 45 years. Second most prevalent is cancer/tumors and vascular complications of diseases. Amputations are named by the level at which they have been performed.
Above-the-Knee Leg Amputation: What to Expect at Home
How can you care for yourself at home? When should you call for help? An above-the-knee amputation is surgery to remove your leg above the knee. Your doctor removed the leg while keeping as much healthy bone, skin, blood vessel, and nerve tissue as possible.
Understanding Leg Amputation: Surgery for a Medical Condition
You’ve been told by a healthcare provider that you need to have a leg amputation. This surgery removes part or all your leg. It's done because tissue in the leg is diseased and can’t be healed.
Understanding Leg Amputation: Surgery After Injury
Leg amputation is a surgery to remove part or all of your leg. It is done because tissue in the leg is very damaged and can’t be healed. Your healthcare provider and team will work with you to set up a treatment plan. Take an active role in your care and ask questions.
Amputation - Johns Hopkins Medicine
Working together, experts in orthopaedics, plastic surgery, prosthetics, rehabilitation, physical and occupational therapy, and mental health work with patients facing amputations of the thigh, leg or arm, including those with double (both limbs) amputations.
Amputation Explained - Blesma, The Limbless Veterans
Trauma is the most common reason for upper limb amputations, and accounts for 57 per cent. People with either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes are particularly at risk, and are 15 times more likely to need an amputation than the general population.
Amputation: Recovery and Rehabilitation - Johns Hopkins Medicine
About 41% of people who have undergone an amputation are at risk for anxiety (including PTSD), depression, substance use disorder, strained relationships and reduced quality of life. It is important to remember that treatment for these symptoms can be very effective.
When you have poor blood flow to your leg, or a serious infection in the skin tissue or bones which has not responded to treatment then, as an absolute last resort we may need to remove (amputate) the leg. Every other possible alternative treatment will be explored first.