Afghan war amputees turn prosthesis pros
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Orthopedic specialist Najmuddin Helal has just one requirement for prospective recruits at Afghanistan's largest prosthetics workshop in Kabul.
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US troops injured in Iraq have required limb amputations at twice the rate of past wars, and as many as 20 percent have suffered head and neck injuries that may require a lifetime of care, according to new data giving the clearest picture yet of the severity of battlefield wounds.
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Every day for weeks on end, injured Army pilot Joseph Luciano talked to an answering machine at Walter Reed hospital, trying to get an appointment for a heart scan. Then he called the Army's new Wounded Soldier and Family Hotline. Within six hours, he got the appointment &#151; along with an apology from the colonel who heads Walter Reed Army Medical Center's radiology department.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep. 15--STOCKTON -- Army 1st Sgt. Ray Wheat still has the prosthetic leg that one of his ROTC students plucked out of a dry ditch in Old Mormon Slough last year.
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When Taliban forces attacked a police checkpoint in central Afghanistan under dark of night in late 2006, special-operations Master Sgt. Andrew Martin called in air support and then slapped a high-tech cloth-like device on his helmet for protection.
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As the insurgents in Iraq step up their attacks, the Army has increased the intensity of its training of battlefield medics. That has meant moving the training from classrooms to more realistic settings and teaching medics to keep fighting the enemy &#151; even if it means sometimes delaying treatment of the wounded.
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'Soldiers love the robotic look' A Scottish prosthetics company engaged in publicising its new bionic hand claims to have achieved significant advances in its field - and says servicemen injured in combat "love the more robotic look" of its technology.â¦
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FALLUJAH, Iraq -- They carried surface-to-air missiles and armor-piercing bullets, but they wore plastic thong sandals and often died barefoot.
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As head of the Armyâs Institute of Surgical Research, Col. John Holcomb is working to change the way the military takes care of its wounded.
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EDITORâS NOTE: This is one in an occasional series in October about the 160 members of Fort Wayneâs 221st Ordnance Company in Afghanistan.
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An Iraqi boy who lost a leg to a car bomb is flying to the U.S. after a charity offered to fit him with a prosthetic leg. His mother said the Global Medical Relief Fund is giving him hope and showing her a different face of America.
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Ever since Army Staff Sgt. Ryan Kelly lost his right leg to a roadside bomb near Baghdad more than a year ago, he has been on a mission. It was more than just learning how to walk again on a prosthetic limb or figuring out what to do with his life after 13 months at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. Kelly, 24, of Prescott, Ariz., saw a need to help other wounded soldiers and their families cope with the financial struggles that come with months of rehabilitation.
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The toll on U.S. troops of war in Iraq  and Afghanistan may be obscured by dramatic advances in  battlefield medicine that allow more soldiers to survive combat  injuries than ever before, according to a report in The New  England Journal of Medicine.
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Research could lead to improvements in prosthetic limbs and robotsScientists have long struggled to figure out how the brain guides the complex movement of our limbs, from the graceful leaps of ballerinas to the simple everyday act of picking up a cup of coffee.
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Images of medics treating horrific injuries in Iraq and the anguished faces of wounded U.S. soldiers are juxtaposed in a new exhibit with pictures of youthful veterans back home dealing with life as amputees.
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A pin suspension system used to keep an artificial lower-leg in place can disrupt circulation within the remaining limb, leading to skin sores, investigators report. They suggest prostheses that use suction attachment are a better choice.
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Ricoveri in ospedale Kabul limitati a chirurgia di guerra