Articles in ‘Amputation’ Category

Catastrophic injuries are sadly all too commonplace, often as the result of high-speed road traffic collisions. Injuries are frequently life-changing physical disability, which can often lead to serious mental health difficulties. Ensuring our clients…

The UK has a legal framework to protect disabled people, including an obligation on all employers to remove disadvantages experienced by disabled people in the workplace. While the percentage of disabled people in work…

Relimb is the UK’s first, private, surgical service dedicated to the treatment of patients who have suffered from traumatic injury, including amputation. Here, co-founder Norbert Kang talks us through what’s so special about what…

For this edition of Team Around the Client, I had the opportunity to sit down for a Q&A with Deborah Bent of the Limbless Association, who are leading the way in service-user led, wholistic…

Compartment syndrome is a painful and potentially serious condition caused by bleeding or swelling within an enclosed bundle of muscles, a muscle compartment, usually in the arms and legs. It occurs when pressure within…

At RWK Goodman we strive to build a team around our clients with the aim of returning their life to its pre-accident position in so far as that is possible. This involves a collaborative…

Technology used in prosthetics doesn’t stand still for long. There are different types of foot and ankle prostheses available for transfemoral and transtibial amputees. Until a ground-breaking powered system came on the scene a…

According to the National Diabetes Foot Care Report, patients with diabetes make up 69% of the minor lower limb amputations in the UK between that time period, and 51% of all major lower limb…

Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) is a medical condition that occurs when a blood clot forms in a vein, usually the leg. Amputation is one of the serious complications that can occur if DVT is…

Sepsis, sometimes called septicaemia or blood poisoning, is a life-threatening reaction to an infection. It happens when the immune system overreacts to an infection and starts to damage on the body’s own tissues and…

There is a significant correlation between diabetes and lower limb amputation. Between 2014 and 2017, Diabetes UK reported a staggering 26,378 lower limb amputations related to diabetes in England, an increase of 19.4% from…