NEW LEG PROSTHESIS GAINS FDA APPROVAL (Orthopedics this Week)
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The conventional treatment for an amputation above the knee is a specially fitted cup-like shell called a socket. It fits over the remaining portion of the patients’ leg and helps secure the device to the leg. If patients do not have a long enough residual limb to properly fit socket prosthesis or have other conditions, such as scarring, pain, recurrent skin infections, or fluctuations in the shape of the residual limb they are just out of luck.
To remedy that situation the FDA has authorized the first prosthesis to ...
