Course: AMPUTEE 101 - Basics
All amputees and family members are welcome here. Newsgroup and amputee forum messages can be posted and viewed for free using Google Groups using this link: groups.google.com/ Important aspects of being an amputee are available here such as selecting the right prosthetist,
achieving a comfortable pain-free prosthetic fit, resolving residual limb pain, phantom pain,
insurance definitions of medical necessity and more. Please help keep this page up to date by reporting errors and "dead links" to the webmaster when found. |
Amputee Site Table of Contents:
| Prosthetic Images and Amputees Photos Gallery |
 Webmaster's first "temporary" leg prosthesis
(polycentric knee) |
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Webmaster's second "definitive" hydraulic
knee with
Otto Bock R457 "rotator" |
Links to photos of prosthetic stance control knees, extreme-activity knees, hydraulic cylinders, feet, pyramid adapters, artificial limb connectors and other artificial limb parts:
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| Links to Leading Commercial Amputee & Prosthetics |
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Top Prosthetic Company Websites:
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Useful Basic Amputee Links:
Amputee 'Devotees', 'Admirers', 'Pretenders' and 'Wannabes'?
| New amputees should be aware of this
phenomenon. Who are they? What are they? Here's what you need to know... |
Very Useful Basic Information for New Amputees (Amputee 101) |
| Inspirational Amputee Websites |
| Email Address or Bio Links | Website links |
| DanaBowman.com (Bilateral Amp, Helicopter pilot, former Golden Knight Skydiver) | |
| HeatherMills.org (Paul McCartney's ex-Wife) | |
| Jarem Frye (Jarem's Story) | SymbiotechsUSA.com ( LAK Rock-climber, Telemark Skier, "XT9" Knee Inventor ) |
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Tim McCarthey |
www.onelegtim.com/ (LAK Policeman, Tim Still Rides a Bike & Motorcycle) |
Lt. Cmdr. John Schmit (USN) |
Click here to view a short video onboard the USS Wasp (U.S. Navy) |
Good-Natured Amputee Jokes Section |
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First Created: October 1st, 1998
Last Revised: September 29, 2006 for the guys from Iraq passing through LANDSTUHL Regional Medical
Center
in Germany on their way to
Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) near Washington, DC.
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