University Utah To Perform Osseointegration on Veteran Amputees

[Wayne Renardson]

 

via The Salt Lake Tribune

For the first time ever in the United States, University of Utah and VA
researchers will test implanted devices to anchor prosthetics worn by
fighters who have lost limbs in war.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a feasibility study
for what’s called osseointegrated direct skeletal attachment of prosthetics.

Kent Bachus, Roy Bloebaum and Peter Beck (left to right) are researchers
at the University of Utah and George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans
Affairs Medical Center. They are developing an implantable prosthetic
device that was recently approved for a FDA feasibility study.

A new implantable prosthetic device is being developed by researchers at
the University of Utah and George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans
Affairs Medical Center. Nothing like it has been used on a human in the
United States.  
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Wayne Renardson


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[Mark Lesek]

Some people on this site were openly hostile about Osseointegration in past few years. They have been strangely silent on this one . Have they conceded defeat? Have they suddenly changed their opinions because of the FDA approval? My prediction is that suddenly OI will be more fashionable in the US because it has been reinvented by the US. Is this being two faced.Hmmm...Everything I predicted 2.5 years ago is coming true. This is truly a major breakthrough for function for US amputees.Very Positive.I am living proof this treatment works. Hooray.

[Wayne Renardson]

Hello Mark:

ML> Some people on this site were openly hostile about Osseointegration in
past few years.

People were also hostile to Galileo for claiming the sun, not the earth, was at the center of the universe.  Since 1492 some folks believe the earth is flat rather than round. People were once afraid of electricity, and the Luddites decried the industrial revolution of the latter 19th Century.

There is not much I can do about people who wish to hold to their cherished beliefs. They have always been with us.

ML> They have been strangely silent on this one . Have
they conceded defeat? Have they suddenly changed their opinions
because of the FDA approval?

I have no idea.

ML> Everything I predicted 2.5 years ago is coming true. This is truly a major breakthrough for function for US amputees.Very Positive. I am living proof this treatment works. Hooray.

I posted it to my listserv, AMP-L, and then here, simply because I thought some people might be interested.  Glad you enjoyed it.


Wayne Renardson  

[Mark Lesek]

Thank You Wayne for repling to this.