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Amputations Below the Knee (Visit this link)
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The elective amputation must be considered plastic and reconstructive in nature. The need to create a dynamic and sensory motor end-organ should be foremost in the surgeon's mind in planning an amputation, and is emphasized here once more. The below-knee stump no longer hangs suspended in an open-end socket. The variable degrees of pressure and weight-bearing over the entire stump surface afforded by the total-contact patellar-tendon-bearing prosthesis enhance the surgeon's opportunity to fashion a functional terminal end-organ.
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