Background:The need for early and effective medical rehabilitation of combatants is determined by a number social, ethical demographic factors.The context the associated with mental reflection participants in local wars, considered on model Afghan Chechen wars. At same time, researchersnote that phenomenon most fully represented American European literature example Vietnam War veterans, known p...

BACKGROUND The aim of this investigation is the development of primarily healthy hips in children who have required orthoses/protheses over the long term due to ipsilateral distally located deformities of the leg. These children show ipsilateral in-toeing gait and Duchenne's limping followed by a coxa valga antetorta and facultative hip decentration. A practical question is whether these hips a...

A CAD (computer aided design) analysis software package (CADVIEW) was designed for use with prosthetic and orthotic CAD CAM (computer aided design/computer aided manufacture) systems. Using the Microsoft Windows 3.1 environment, CADVIEW provides a series of anatomical shape viewing and analysis tools. These tools include simultaneous display of multiple sockets and multiple views, two dimension...

The effect of prosthesis mass on the metabolic cost of steady-state walking was studied in ten male non-vascular trans-tibial amputees (TTAs) and ten non-amputee controls. The subjects underwent four trials of treadmill ambulation, with each trial performed for nine minutes at level grade and 76 m/min. Twenty minutes of seated rest followed each trial. During trials numbers one and two, TTAs am...