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The immediate future for the next ten years is being able to attach the prosthesis directly to the bone of the residual limb. It removes all the problems of fitting a prosthesis socket to an already compromised residual limb. The Russians have apparently experimented with this and there is allegedly some pioneering work in Britian prompted by the London underground bombings and the casualties there. Barriers to overcome are infection of the area where the attachment comes through the skin and permament ossification of the attachment adaptor to the residual bone. How about some discussion on these lines.
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