Loads in hip disarticulation prostheses during normal daily use
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Loads in hip disarticulation prostheses during normal daily use.
As a result of deficiency at birth, disease or trauma, there are people who have no limbs from the hip joint downwards. These people have no possibility of locomotion without the use of other devices such as wheelchairs or hip disarticulation prostheses. As these prostheses are used by people of all ages, people who are different in their grade of physical activities and their weights, the pros...
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عنوان ژورنال: Prosthetics & Orthotics International
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0309-3646
DOI: 10.3109/03093649809164485