Lower Extremity Amputation and Prosthetic Rehabilitation

Each major military operation has resulted in a new cohort of veteran’s with combat-related traumatic amputation: Civil War 70,000 WW1 4,403 WW2 14,912 Korea 1,000 Vietnam 5283 Persian Gulf War 15 OIF/OEF /OND 1643 DoD identified a need for the combat-injured