Two thirds of amputees never receive a prosthesis of any kind.
The triple study act re-enforces Kaufman’s assertion that roughly Two Thirds of the amputee population can’t get a prosthesis. And a new study to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Vascular Surgery (JVS) tells the same story from a slightly different angle. According to this report, only 42 percent of new lower-limb amputees are referred to a prosthetist by their surgical care team or primary care physician.
