Surgeon transforms amputees' mobility by melding bone and metal
Tuesday, May 28, 2019 - 20:01
in Health & Medicine
An Iraqi-born doctor who is now an orthopedic surgeon in Australia has revolutionized prosthetics for amputees. It's called osseointegration, a surgical procedure where a titanium rod-like implant is inserted directly into the bone of a patient's residual limb, then connected to a state-of-the-art prosthetis.