Many of his designs for small appliances are being mass-produced and marketed, but his larger designs have not been built, " a whole host of futuristic concepts that will have us living in pods and driving cars so flat that leg amputation is the only option.

The amputation proved to be unnecessary as emergency services arrived and recovered the trapped arm, but were unable to re-attach it.

His crowning achievement was the victory at Kulm ( August 30, 1813 ), which cost him amputation of the left arm.

Paul Wittgenstein ( November 5, 1887March 3, 1961 ) was an Austrian-born concert pianist who became known for commissioning new piano concerti for the left hand alone, following the amputation of his right arm during the First World War.

He declined an amputation, but his arm was left crippled from above the elbow and couldn't lift the arm above his neck.

His left arm was severely injured in a football accident, to the extent that surgeons advised amputation.

Led the 61st New York Infantry in a charge in which he was twice severely wounded in the right arm, necessitating amputation.

He found the sulfonamide Prontosil to be effective against streptococcus, and treated his own daughter with it, saving her the amputation of an arm.

The bloody stump on the end of her arm, signifying a traumatic amputation.

Corday is saddened to see Romano losing his career due to his arm amputation / reattachment.

A blood-infection spread throughout his arm, requiring its amputation.

His attempt to relocate the shoulder caused further damage to the fractured arm, necessitating its amputation.

Although there were fears he'd never walk again, or his arm would require amputation, surgeon Terry Axelrod managed to treat Khadr successfully, and would later work the treatments into one of his medical lecture programmes.

Enlisting in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on 22 August 1914, he served in a wide variety of theatres and actions in the First World War, including the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow, Harwich light cruisers, Admiral Troubridge ’ s mission to the Danube, naval siege guns at Flanders, the Zeebrugge Raid in which, commanding a rear gun on the Vindictive, he was severely wounded, necessitating the amputation of his right arm, and, finally, in the obscure Russian campaign, commanding an armoured train on the line south of Archangel.

During the American Civil War, he enlisted as a private in Company C, Forty-third Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in 1861, and was discharged in December 1862 because of a wound which necessitated the amputation of his right arm.

In 1826, crippled by rheumatism and arthritis, he had to endure an amputation at his right shoulder after a botched operation to correct a broken arm.

* Pliny Sheffield ( December 21, 1863 through November 28, 1864, Resigned in right arm necessitating amputation at the Battle of the Wilderness on May 6, 1864 )

He suffers the amputation of an arm and a leg after he refuses to subject to the sadistic demands of his patron's woman.

When Marlowe accidentally injures his arm, King obtains expensive medicines to save the gangrenous limb from amputation, but it is unclear whether he does so out of genuine friendship or because Marlowe is the only one who knows where the proceeds from King's latest and most profitable venture are hidden.

The wound was serious enough to almost require amputation of Kirkpatrick's left arm, but doctors were able to save it and Chuck was able to play again after a very difficult rehab period.

Lulu arrived from Cyprus with one arm after her other arm was bitten by her mother and became infected leading to amputation.

His only son, Albert Edward Charles Robert Wynn Carrington, Viscount Wendover ( 1895 – 1915 ), died on 19 May 1915 of complications following the amputation of an arm when he was wounded in the fighting at Ypres during the First World War.

Later the Oneida was attacked and raked by the Confederate ram, and Mullany received several wounds, necessitating the amputation of his left arm.

* July 1 – July 12: At least one shark mauls 5 swimmers along of New Jersey coastline during the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, resulting in 4 deaths and the survival of one youth who requires limb amputation.

Not long after the new works opened, continuing trouble with his smallpox-afflicted knee made necessary the amputation of his right leg.

Diagnosed with bone cancer which resulted in the amputation of his leg, the 18-year-old kinesiology major set out to cross Canada on a grueling run called the Marathon of Hope to raise funding and awareness about cancer.

In accordance with the Quran and several hadith, theft is punished by imprisonment or amputation of hands.

A patient with a traumatic amputation of the forearm might just be tagged yellow, have the bleeding stopped, and then be sent to a hospital when possible.

According to Arthur Croxton, the manager of London's Coliseum, the amputation was not apparent during her performances, which were done with the use of an artificial limb.

One treatment, ( graded motor imagery ) has now been tested in three randomised controlled trials and has shown to be effective at reducing pain and disability in people with chronic CRPS, or phantom limb pain after amputation or avulsion injury of the brachial plexus.

There is no randomized study in medical literature that has studied the response with amputation of patients who have failed the above-mentioned therapies and who continue to be miserable.

It is likely that like in any other chronic pain syndrome, the brain becomes chronically stimulated with pain and late amputation may not work as well as it might be expected.

In a survery of 15 patients with CRPS Type 1, 11 responded that their life was better after amputation.

A man with an above the knee amputation exercises while wearing a prosthetic leg

A midnight drive to Tulsa, Oklahoma, enabled Mantle to be treated with newly available penicillin, saving his leg from amputation.

According to legend, he did not cry out once during the amputation nor during the consequent sealing of the wound with hot tar.

On January 16, 1964, Dotter percutaneously dilated a tight, localized stenosis of the superficial femoral artery ( SFA ) in an 82-year-old woman with painful leg ischemia and gangrene who refused leg amputation.

Transtibial amputees are usually able to regain normal movement more readily than someone with a transfemoral amputation, due in large part to retaining the knee, which allows for easier movement.

In August 1917, while serving with No. 23 Squadron, Kingsford Smith was shot down and received injuries which required amputation of a large part of his left foot.

Gowen was diagnosed with cancer as a child, and as a result lost his left leg due to amputation at the age of eight.

The sufferer feels incomplete with four limbs, but is confident amputation will fix this.

Some support amputation for patients with BIID that cannot be treated through psychotherapy or medication.

Treatment for some bone cancers may involve surgery, such as limb amputation, or limb sparing surgery ( often in combination with chemotherapy and radiation therapy ).

Standard therapy is a combination of limb-salvage orthopedic surgery when possible ( or amputation in some cases ) and a combination of high dose methotrexate with leucovorin rescue, intra-arterial cisplatin, adriamycin, ifosfamide with mesna, BCD, etoposide, muramyl tri-peptite ( MTP ).

Chemotherapy combined with amputation improves the survival time, but most dogs still die within a year.

Approximately 60 to 80 % of individuals with an amputation experience phantom sensations in their amputated limb, and the majority of the sensations are painful.

In extreme cases, surgeons would perform a second amputation, shortening the stump, with the hope of removing the inflamed nerve endings and causing temporary relief from the phantom pain.