“Initially, the ideas came down to a design with oxygen bottles, tubes, swimming goggles and other diving gadgets.
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So it is possible for him to wear flippers on both sides for his hobby, diving,” Pabst told me. The new prosthesis should be a bath prosthesis with a special joint in which the prosthetic foot can be angled. “The brainstorming started after the patient gave us his “go” for a somewhat more unusual prosthesis.
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The new bath prosthesis in use by the patient The specialists at the clinic still use traditional methods, like plaster casting, in their work, but sometimes for special cases, they employ the professional, handheld Artec Eva 3D scanner, which I had the pleasure of reviewing this year and has been used for medical applications in the past. Once the swelling went down, Wolfgang was fitted for a transitional prosthesis, and soon became a patient of the Sanitätshaus Klinz orthopedics clinic in Bernburg.
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Doctors tried for three years to save his foot, before the inflammation spread so far up his leg and caused so much tissue necrosis that they were forced to amputate his leg below the knee. One example is Wolfgang K., who was unloading his delivery truck in central Germany when the forklift that was supposed to carry his boxes away instead crashed into him, knocking him unconscious and shattering his left foot. Worldwide demand for prosthetic specialists is rising, and for good reason: each year in the US, over 150,000 people undergo lower limb amputations, and while that number is considerably lower in Germany, there are still thousands of people in that country annually who lose a lower limb.