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Although hip, knee and other orthopaedic implants are
well-established prostheses, much remains to be understood about
how these implants wear in use. This important book summarises the
wealth of recent research in this area and its implications for
implant and joint design.
After an introductory overview, the book reviews the causes and
prevention of implant wear. Part one discusses fundamental issues
such as tissue response to wear, the anatomy and biomechanics of
hips and knees as well as the materials and design issues they
raise for hip, knee and other types of orthopaedic implant. Part
two considers wear phenomena in a range of materials, including
ultra-high molecular weight (UHMWPE), metal and ceramic joints. It
also covers surgical and other factors influencing wear as well as
ways of detecting, analysing and predicting implant wear and
failure.
With its distinguished editor and international team of
contributors, Wear of orthopaedic implants and artificial joints is
a standard reference for implant manufacturers, surgeons and those
researching this important area.
Summarises the wealth of recent research into the wear of
orthopaedic implants and artificial joints and discusses the
implications for implant and joint designReviews the causes and
prevention of implant wear, tissue response to wear, the anatomy
and biomechanics of hips and knees and the materials and design
issues they raise for orthopaedic implantsConsiders wear phenomena
in a range of materials, including ultra-high molecular weight
(UHMWPE), metal and ceramic joints
From the wooden teeth of George Washington to the Bly
prosthesis, popular in the 1860s and boasting easy uniform motions
of the limb, to today's lifelike approximations, prosthetic devices
reveal the extent to which the evolution and design of technologies
of the body are intertwined with both the practical and subjective
needs of human beings.
The peculiar history of prosthetic devices sheds light on the
relationship between technological change and the civilizing
process of modernity, and analyzes the concrete materials of
prosthetics which carry with them ideologies of body, ideals, body
politics, and culture.
Simultaneously critiquing, historicizing, and theorizing
prosthetics, Artificial Parts, Practical Lives lays out a balanced
and complex picture of its subject, neither vilifying nor
celebrating the merger of flesh and machine.
Secondary procedures in total ankle replacement will include the
following articles: Incidence of complications during initial
experience with primary total ankle replacement prostheses: A
systematic review, Secondary procedures in total ankle replacement
based on registry data analysis, Arthroscopic debridement for
treatment of post-operative stiffness and soft-tissue impingement
following total ankle replacement, Painful osteophytes, ectopic
bone and pain in the malleolar gutters following total ankle
replacement: Management strategies, Use of tendon procedures for
managing varus and valgus mal-alignment with total ankle
replacement, and many more!
The goal of this book is to close the gap between high technology
and accessibility for people having lost their independence due to
the loss of physical and/or cognitive capabilities. Robots and
mechatronic devices bring the opportunity to improve the autonomy
of disabled people and facilitate their social and professional
integration by assisting them to perform daily living tasks.
Technical topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Communication and learning applications in SCI an CP, Interface and
Internet-based designs, Issues in human-machine interaction,
Personal robotics, Hardware and control, Evaluation methods,
Clinical experience, Orthotics and prosthetics, Robotics for older
adults, Service robotics, Movement physiology and motor control.
This ground-breaking title begins with an introductory overview of
the Lower Extremity Gait Systems (LEGS) project, identifying
concerns and observations as context for the reader to consider
topics and challenges detailed in later chapters. Next are chapters
that explore relevant military and civilian needs, and an essential
historical context of the capabilities and limitations of
contemporary prosthetics. The section concludes with an overview of
essential components used in passive and active lower limb
prosthetics, including sockets, foot, ankle, and knee systems, as
well as emerging bionic systems. A second section considers
research and development in orthotics, synthetic and biological
materials, volitional control, and wearable robotics (also known as
exoskeletons). Finally, expert authors explore advanced science and
emerging medical perspectives in research related to limb salvage,
osseointegration, limb transplantation, and tissue engineering.
Designed for medical practitioners, engineers, students, and
researchers who use or develop prosthetic technology for civilian
or military amputees, Full Stride: Advancing the State of the Art
in Lower Extremity Gait Systems will be of great interest to trauma
specialists, orthopedists, rehabilitation specialists, nursing
staff and physical therapists, as well as researchers and
scientists who specialize in fields that shape and inform advanced
prosthetic device development such as materials sciences,
engineering (electrical, mechanical, biomedical), robotics, and
human physiology.
This book raises questions about the changing relationships between
technology, people and health. It examines the accelerating pace of
technological development and a general shift to personalized,
patient-led medicine. Such relationships are increasingly mediated
through particular medical technologies, drawn together by the
authors as 'personal medical devices' (PMDs) - devices that are
attached to, worn by, interacted with, or carried by individuals
for the purposes of generating biomedical data and carrying out
medical interventions on the person concerned. The burgeoning PMD
field is advancing rapidly across multiple domains and disciplines
- so rapidly that conceptual and empirical research and thinking
around PMDs, and their clinical, social and philosophical
implications, often lag behind new technical developments and
medical interventions. This timely and original volume explores the
significant and under-researched impact of personal medical devices
on contemporary understandings of health and illness. It will be a
valuable read for scholars and practitioners of medicine, health,
science and technology and social science.
The main objective in the rehabilitation of people following
amputation is to restore or improve their functioning, which
includes their return to work. Full-time employment leads to
beneficial health effects and being healthy leads to increased
chances of full-time employment (Ross and Mirowskay 1995).
Employment of disabled people enhances their self-esteem and
reduces social isolation (Dougherty 1999). The importance of
returning to work for people following amputation the- fore has to
be considered. Perhaps the first article about reemployment and
problems people may have at work after amputation was published in
1955 (Boynton 1955). In later years, there have been sporadic
studies on this topic. Greater interest and more studies about
returning to work and problems people have at work following
amputation arose in the 1990s and has continued in recent years
(Burger and Marinc ?ek 2007). These studies were conducted in
different countries on all the five continents, the greatest number
being carried out in Europe, mainly in the Netherlands and the UK
(Burger and Marinc ?ek 2007). Owing to the different functions of
our lower and upper limbs, people with lower limb amputations have
different activity limitations and participation restrictions
compared to people with upper limb amputations. Both have problems
with driving and carrying objects. People with lower limb
amputations also have problems standing, walking, running, kicking,
turning and stamping, whereas people with upper limb amputations
have problems grasping, lifting, pushing, pulling, writing, typing,
and pounding (Giridhar et al. 2001).
This book describes the whole field of endoprosthetics, with all
its potential, for practicing clinicians. The following aspects are
dealt with in particular: indications and contraindications,
surgical procedures (pros and cons), pain therapy, post-operative
problems, infections, risks, necessary medication, length of
medication, and post-operative patient care.
From the wooden teeth of George Washington to the Bly
prosthesis, popular in the 1860s and boasting easy uniform motions
of the limb, to today's lifelike approximations, prosthetic devices
reveal the extent to which the evolution and design of technologies
of the body are intertwined with both the practical and subjective
needs of human beings.
The peculiar history of prosthetic devices sheds light on the
relationship between technological change and the civilizing
process of modernity, and analyzes the concrete materials of
prosthetics which carry with them ideologies of body, ideals, body
politics, and culture.
Simultaneously critiquing, historicizing, and theorizing
prosthetics, Artificial Parts, Practical Lives lays out a balanced
and complex picture of its subject, neither vilifying nor
celebrating the merger of flesh and machine.
Master the tools of design thinking using Neuroprosthetics:
Principles and Applications. Developed from successfully tested
material used in an undergraduate and graduate level course taught
to biomedical engineering and neuroscience students, this book
focuses on the use of direct neural sensing and stimulation as a
therapeutic intervention for complex disorders of the brain. It
covers the theory and applications behind neuroprosthetics and
explores how neuroprosthetic design thinking can enhance value for
users of a direct neural interface. The book explains the
fundamentals of design thinking, introduces essential concepts from
neuroscience and engineering illustrating the major components of
neuroprosthetics, and presents practical applications. In addition
to describing the approach of design thinking (based on facts about
the user's needs, desires, habits, attitudes, and experiences with
neuroprosthetics), it also examines how effectively "human
centered" neuroprosthetics can address people's needs and
interactions in their daily lives. Identifying concepts and
features of devices that work well with users of a direct neural
interface, this book: Outlines the signal sensing capabilities and
trade-offs for common electrode designs, and determines the most
appropriate electrode for any neuroprosthetic application Specifies
neurosurgical techniques and how electronics should be tailored to
capture neural signals Provides an understanding of the mechanisms
of neural-electrode performance and information contained in neural
signals Provides understanding of neural decoding in
neuroprosthetic applications Describes the strategies that can be
used to promote long-term therapeutic interventions for humans
through the use of neuroprosthetics The first true primary text for
undergraduate and graduate students in departments of neuroscience
and bioengineering that covers the theory and applications behind
this science, Neuroprosthetics: Principles and Applications
provides the fundamental knowledge needed to understand how
electrodes translate neural activity into signals that are useable
by machines and enables readers to master the tools of design
thinking and apply them to any neuroprosthetic application.
Contents: 1. The amg ARTHOS and ARTHOS^TInert> Coronary Stent Implantation Systems 2. The Antares Starflex Coronary Stent System 3. The AST SLK-view Stent and Delivery System 4. The BeStent2 Stent 5. The biodivYsio AS, OC, SV Stent Range with PC Technology^TTM> 6. The Bx VELOCITY^TTM> Stent 7. The Carbostent SIRIUS Stent 8. The Cordynamic Apolo Stent 9. The Coroflex and Coroflex Delta Coronary Stent Systems 10. The Duraflex^TTM> Coronary Stent System 11. The Express Coronary Stent System 12. The GENIC DYLN Stent 13. The GENIC, GENIC SV and GENIC LV Stent Systems 14. The Genius Coronary Stent 15. The Igaki-Tamai Stent 16. The JOSTENT Coronary Stent Range 17. The Lunar Coronary Stent System 18. The Maeo Stent 19. The Med-X Flexy Stent 20. The Medtronic AVE Modular Stents ^TTM> Coronary Stent System 23. The Multi-Link RX PIXEL^TTM> Coronary Stent System 24. The Multi-Link RX Ultra^TTM> Coronary Stent System 25. The Nexus and Nexus II Stents 26. The NIR and NIRFLEX Coronary Stents 27. The Prolink Stent 28. The ProPass Stent 29. The Coronary R Stent^TTM> 30. The Rithron and Rithron-XR Coronary Stents 31. The Seaquest Stent^TTM> 32. The Spiral Force Stent 33. The Tsunami Coronary Stent System 34. The Zebra Stent Section II: Drug-Eluting Stents 35. The Background, Rationale for and Current Status of the ELUTES (EvaLUation of paclitaxel Elusting Stent) Trial 36. The Biocompatibles' Drug-Eluting Stents 37. The Boston Scientific Antiproliferative, Paclitaxel Eluting Stents (TAXUS) 38. The Multi-Link TETRA D^TTM> Drug-Coated Coronary Stent System 39. The Ohytis DLC (Diamond-Like Carbon) Coated Stents 40. The Phytis Double-Coated Stent 41. The Quaman QuaDDS-QP2 Stent 42. The Sirolimus-Eluting Bx VELOCITY^TTM> Stent: Preclinical Data 43. The Sirolimus-Eluting Bx VELOCITY^TTM> Stents: Clinical Data
This useful reference provides up-to-the-minute coverage of every
aspect of valvular heart disease-presenting etiology,
pathophysiology, and symptomatology in detail as well as current
methods of diagnosis and treatment.
Examines specific problems in valvular heart disease such as
endocarditis, pregnancy, arrhythmias, rheumatic disease, acute
regurgitation, and surgery in children and the elderly
Reviewing the latest invasive and non-invasive diagnostic
techniques and analyzing the wide variety of management choices,
Valvular Heart Disease
explicates the pathology, echocardiography, and the radiological
examination of valvular diseases
discusses each of the heart valves
elucidates possible pitfalls in diagnosis and management
shows how to assess left and right ventricular function and how to
time surgery
illustrates the benefits and drawbacks of medical, interventional,
and surgical management, including balloon catheter, valvotomy, and
valve repair
supplies an in-depth overview of conservative therapy
and more
A Focus on 3D Printing for Healthcare Applications is an
indispensable collection of articles for anyone interested in
additive manufacturing and prosthetics. It includes insights and
examples into 3D printing for:- Biomedical prototypes- Tissue
engineering- Bone scaffold manufacturing- Dental applications 3D
printing has huge potential to deliver tailored healthcare
solutions. Find out some of the reasons why by reading this
collection.
A young man has a horrible motorcycle accident. He wakes up in the
hospital to discover that one of his arms has been amputated. Then
a portrait on the wall of his hospital room begins to speak to him.
The subject of the painting introduces himself as Ambroise Pare,
the French barber-surgeon who revolutionized the art of amputation.
From this wonderfully absurd premise, the two begin an imaginary
conversation that takes them through a sweeping history of surgical
amputation, from the Stone Age to the Space Age. Unencumbered by
pathos or didacticism, this graphic novel explores the world of
amputation, revealing fascinating details about famous amputees
throughout history, the invention of the tourniquet, phantom limb
syndrome, types of prostheses, and transhumanist technologies.
Playfully illustrated and seriously funny, The Body Factory is sure
to delight anyone interested in the history and future of medicine
and how we repair-and even enhance-the body.
Foreword from a Clinical Biomechanist, Applied Physiologist and
Prosthetist teaching graduate students in Prosthetics &
Orthotics. While there are many books on Biomechanics, arguably the
quintessential science of limb prosthetics, none addresses the
fundamental principles in sufficient detail and depth to be
practically useful to the prosthetist, rehabilitation specialist or
researcher. Dr. Pitkin's monograph is an exemplary collection of
theoretical principles from his research and o- ers, presented in
its clinical and applied biomechanics form. The textbook provides
an excellent overview of the many facets of lower limb prosthetic
design and engineering for the ardent clinician researcher and
student. The book delves into many of the basic concepts that are
required knowledge for the clinician and the scientist to have as
the foundation for their work. Dr. Pitkin has an e- quent manner in
which he reflects on the history and literature to tell the storied
evolution of prosthetic design . He takes the reader on a journey
to consider his theories, which have substantive foundations to
contemplate. By the end of chapter one, we have the basic h- tory
and an appreciation for the rationale behind the "rolling joint
ankle" with evidence to support his theoretical views.
Lower-Limb Prosthetics and Orthotics: Clinical Concepts is a
comprehensive overview of lower-limb prosthetics and orthotics,
covering normal and pathological gait, lower-limb biomechanics,
clinical applications, as well as prosthetic and orthotic designs
and components. Joan Edelstein and Alex Moroz have written
Lower-Limb Prosthetics and Orthotics with the clinician's
perspective in mind. Clinical management is incorporated throughout
the text, including basic surgical concepts, postoperative
management, preprosthetic care, and training in the use of devices.
Additionally, this text incorporates unique features relevant to
physicians such as prescription writing and prosthetic and orthotic
construction and modification, as well as, the latest research
regarding energy consumption and long-term utilization of
prostheses. Chapters Include: Orthotics in neuromuscular diseases
Orthotics in pediatrics Functional expectations Gait and activities
training Transtibial and transfemoral prostheses and components
Transtibial and transfemoral biomechanics, evaluation, and gait
analysis Disarticulations and Bilateral Amputations With over 150
line drawings and photographs to supplement the text, Lower-Limb
Prosthetics and Orthotics: Clinical Concepts is ideal for
clinicians in the fields of physical medicine and rehabilitation,
orthopedics, vascular surgery, physical therapy and occupational
therapy.
Active Above-Knee Prosthesis: A Guide to a Smart Prosthetic Leg
presents original research and development results, providing a
firsthand overview of idea generation and prototype production. The
book gives insights into the problem of stair ascent for people
with above-knee amputation and offers a solution in the form of a
physical prototype of an active above-knee prosthesis with an
actuated ankle. The book's authors have developed and tested a
physical prototype of an active above-knee prosthesis, giving
anyone who is researching and designing prosthetic devices
firsthand knowledge on how to build on, and continue with, work
that has already been done.
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