A large proportion of amputees ( 50 – 80 %) experience the phenomenon of phantom limbs ; they feel body parts that are no longer there.

Phantom limb pain is a common experience of amputees.

Some amputees experience continuous pain that varies in intensity or quality ; others experience several bouts a day, or it may occur only once every week or two.

It has been known that at least 80 % of amputees experience phantom sensations at some time of their lives.

It also does not address how sensations can spontaneously end and how some amputees do not experience phantom sensations at all ( Bittar et al., 2005 ).

A wide range of amputees can make use of the C-Leg ; however, some people are more suited to this prosthesis than others.

His terminal device ( the hook ) is still considered to be a major advancement for amputees because it restored their prehension abilities to some extent.

However, the animal welfare impact of pinioning is debated, with some evidence that is unnecessarily painful even in young birds, and that it may cause a phantom limb syndrome similar to what is observed in human amputees.

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.

This is especially important for transfemoral amputees.

* The ability for transfemoral amputees to drive a car.

Neuromas have been associated with phantom pain in human amputees and have therefore been linked to chronic pain in beak trimmed birds.

Due to technologic advances in prosthetics, amputees can live active lives with little restriction.

Other strokes exist for specific purposes, such as training or rescue, and it is also possible to adapt strokes to not use parts of the body, either to isolate certain body parts, such as swimming with arms only or legs only to train them harder, or for use by amputees or those suffering paralysis.

The institute is also the region's prosthetic fitting centre where amputees are fitted with state-of-the-art intelligent artificial limbs.

Some amputees from the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts have returned to service with sophisticated prostheses.

It also enables the amputees to walk down stairs with a step-over-step approach, rather than the one step at a time approach used with mechanical knees.

Becoming accustomed to the C-Leg is especially difficult when walking downhill, and amputees should seek help while becoming familiar with the system to avoid injury.

The C-Leg can be used by amputees with either single or bilateral limb amputations.

The main disadvantage of this method is that amputees with the direct bone attachment cannot have large impacts on the limb, such as those experienced during jogging, because of the potential for the bone to break.

They were held in two separate locations, Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom ( wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injuries ) and in the Mitchel Athletic Complex and Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, United States of America ( wheelchair and ambulatory athletes with cerebral palsy, amputees, and les autres ( the others ) conditions as well as blind and visually impaired athletes ).

Over 63, 500 landmine and ERW casualties have been recorded in Cambodia since 1979, and with over 25, 000 amputees Cambodia has the highest ratio per capita in the world.

During his work with injured soldiers, Paré documented the pain experienced by amputees which they perceive as sensation in the ' phantom ' amputated limb.

For instance, the definition would seem to allow humans with a prosthesis to be considered " cyborgs " but this seems inappropriate ( see: Category: Fictional amputees ).

While his career in racing was filled with success, Rose considered his most important accomplishment to be his invention of a device that made it possible for amputees to drive an automobile.

Transfemoral amputees can have a very difficult time regaining normal movement.

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Organizations such as the Challenged Athletes Foundation have been developed to give amputees the opportunity to be involved in athletics and adaptive sports such as Amputee Soccer.

During World War II and for many years afterward, Capp worked tirelessly going to hospitals to entertain patients, especially to cheer recent amputees and explain to them that the loss of a limb did not mean an end to a happy and productive life.

Capp would resume visiting war amputees during the Korean War and Vietnam War.

In addition, twenty to thirty actual amputees were used to portray US soldiers maimed during the landing.

Baen also provides free electronic copies of its books to readers who are blind, paralyzed, dyslexic, or are amputees.

Jack Kevan, who worked on The Wizard of Oz and made prosthetics for amputees during World War II, created the bodysuit, while Chris Mueller, Jr. sculpted the head.

* Amputee Coalition of America – The organization was created in 1990 to improve the lives of amputees.

The C-Leg allows amputees to walk at near walking speed.

The C-Leg ’ s ability to respond to sensor readings can help amputees recover from stumbles without the knee buckling.

The prosthesis is recommended for amputees that vary their walking speeds and can reach over 3 miles per hour ; however, it cannot be used for running.

Active amputees, such as bikers and rollerbladers may find the C-Leg suited to their needs.

The C-Leg is designed to support amputees weighing up to 275 pounds.

In addition to the standard artificial limb for everyday use, many amputees or congenital patients have special limbs and devices to aid in the participation of sports and recreational activities.

Underlying these conceptions of mimesis are certain presuppositions concerning the nature of primary human experience which require some exposition before the main argument can proceed.

Whether you experienced the passion of desire I have, of course, no way of knowing, nor indeed have I wished with even the most fleeting fragment of a wish to know, for the fact that one constitutes by one's mere existence so to speak the proof of some sort of passion makes any speculation upon this part of one's parents' experience more immodest, more scandalizing, more deeply unwelcome than an obscenity from a stranger.

He mentions the beats only once '', when he refers to their having revived through mere power and abandonment and the unwillingness to, commit death in life some idea of a decent equivalent between verbal expression and actual experience,, but the entire narrative, is written in the tiresome vocabulary `` of '' that lost `` and '' dying cause, `` and in the '' `` sprung syntax that is supposed to supplant, our mother, tongue.

So our innate generosity of spirit prompts us to share our trials, errors and solutions with any who are taking the pool plunge for the first time -- in the pious hope that some may profit from our experience.

While this influence is a complex matter, depending upon personality factors in the individual as well as upon his social-class experience, there probably are some general statements about social-class background and educational policy that can be made with a fair degree of truth.

Emerson, in his lecture, refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before, whether dreaming or waking, a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue, at some former hour, they know not when ''.

Most adolescents have some ideological diffusion at various developmental stages, as they experience a proliferation of ideas and values.

While most everyone has an experience with anxiety at some point in their lives, as it is a common reaction to real or perceived threats of all kinds, most do not develop long-term problems with anxiety.

Based on his industry experience on Air Force missile projects, Mueller realized some skilled managers could be found among high-ranking officers in the US Air Force, so he got Webb's permission to recruit General Samuel C. Phillips, who gained a reputation for his effective management of the Minuteman program, as OMSF program controller.

The intuitionists believed that aesthetic experience was disclosed by a single mental faculty of some kind.

Modern aestheticians have asserted that will and desire were almost dormant in aesthetic experience, yet preference and choice have seemed important aesthetics to some 20th-century thinkers.

In some cases, individuals experience significant psychological stress during the experience.

The current definition of rookie status for the award is based only on Major League experience, but some feel that past NPB players are not true rookies because of their past professional experience.

The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority ( MTA ), which had little experience in managing an undertaking of the scope and magnitude of the CA / T Project, hired a joint venture to provide preliminary designs, manage design consultants and construction contractors, track the project's cost and schedule, advise MTA on project decisions, and ( in some instances ) act as the MTA's representative.

The experience of " beauty " often involves the interpretation of some entity as being in balance and harmony with nature, which may lead to feelings of attraction and emotional well-being.

While U. S. culture prefers breasts that are youthful and upright, some cultures venerate women with wrinkled, saggy breasts, indicating mothering and the wisdom of experience.

While some people with bipolar disorder mainly experience manic symptoms, others more often feel depressed.

The Ministry of Supply selected Avro out of the British manufacturers though it had no previous experience in working on guided weapons other than some private venture work ; Handley Page had suggested a missile but the Elliots gyro based guidance system was inaccurate beyond.

Approximately 10 % of patients will experience a notable protracted withdrawal syndrome, which can persist for many months or in some cases a year or longer.

However, beginning sometime after the Reformation, being born again has been predominantly understood by some Protestants ( of the " anabaptist " branch ) to be an experience of conversion symbolized by water baptism, and rooted in a commitment to one's own personal faith in Jesus Christ for salvation.

Many associate the term " born again " with the revelation of a new concept, or an experience of conversion, defined as mental assent to the acceptance of Jesus Christ as one's personal Savior ; though some believe that this experience or mental assent ( See Gnosticism ) is not alone sufficient to merit Christian salvation.

However, members were divided over key issues, only 25 had previous parliamentary experience, and although many had some legal training, there were no qualified lawyers.