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This Corner continues an ongoing series of articles looking at the controversies surrounding the Ertl amputation, featuring an article by a US surgeon describing his results with 155 transtibial Ertl procedures. It also includes the first report of about a transcontinental tour across the USA to see how prosthetists are currently managing patients with hip disarticulation or transpelvic amputations. A brief commentary about the recent Supreme Court ruling on Any Willing Provider regulations wraps up this month's topics.
All chapters from the Spanish language textbooks on Lower Limb Prosthetics and Orthotics have been posted, and remain available for downloading, along with the classic text from UCLA on Upper Limb Prostheses.
Thanks to the generosity of Sr. Alberto Castillo from Mexico City, the articles in this Corner will now be available in Spanish too. A
brief biography
is posted, listing just a few of Sr. Castillo's many accomplishments. Additional chapters from the texts on lower limb prosthetics and orthotics that have been translated into Spanish are also available for downloading.
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This month's Corner includes the next installment of uploads of chapters from the entire Spanish language texts on Lower Limb Orthoses and Lower Limb Prostheses, for downloading or printing. CPO Services is very pleased to be able to post electronic versions of texts used in the former WHO school in the Dominican Republic, with the kind permission of Sidney Fishman, PhD.
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