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KMID : 0377619770330060685
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1977 Volume.33 No. 6 p.685 ~ p.689
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Study of Rehabilitation of the Amputee
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Abstract
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We have made a study of 1, 235 amputees (1, 342 limbs) who were admitted to the Rehabilitation Center, Yonsei University Medical Center to have prosth-etic fitting and training during the period from March 1970 to February 1975.
The age groups of the amputees in order of prevalence were 21 to 30 years, 11 to 20 years and 31 to 40 years. Males accounted for 85.4% of the cases and females 14.6%.
Accidents were the cause of the greatest number of amputations (78.1%) with peripheral vascular diseases next in 9.7%.
Lower extremity amputations accounted for 77.3% of all the cases. Of these,, 399 cases (38.4%) were A.K. amputations and 528 cases (50.8%) were B.K. amputations.
The remaining 22.7% of the cases were upper extremity amputations. Of these, 112 cases (36.8%) were A.E. amputations and 143 cases (47.0%) B.E. amputations.
In general most of the amputees were poorly educated and 87.1% came from economically very poor families thus necessitating governmental relief and charity service for their rehabilitation.
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