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Overview |
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| Introduction |
The Professional Medical Team is composed of orthopaedics and rehabilitation doctors, physiotherapist, ergo-therapist, prosthesis orthopaedists and rehabilitation nurses. We provide of the following services:
- Comprehensive Medical Consultation
- Physiotherapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Prostheses and orthosis provision, adjustment and maintenance
When servicing clinically, Stand TALL will include typical and complicated real cases into our courses as case studies to enrich our teaching material. |
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| Geographical distribution of patients served by Stand TALL |
From the breakout of Sichuan earthquake to July 2015, Stand TALL had served 564 patients. The geographical distribution of patients is as below: |
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| 「站起來」服務統計 |
在2014年8月至2015年7月，「站起來」醫療團隊服務1031人次，詳情如下： |
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Moreover, 5 pieces of prostheses and orthosis were manufactured, 56 pieces of prostheses were replaced, and 219 pieces of prostheses and orthosis were maintained by Stand TALL. |
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| Comprehensive medical consultation and rehabilitation services |
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Many years have passed since Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan. Most of the patients are on the right track of rehabilitation and reintegrated into their new lives.
Most of the patients are teenagers who are very active, therefore, their prosthetic limbs are tent to suffer higher wear and tear. Some patients are still children. They would even have to undergo stump reconditioning surgery before installing prosthetic limbs. Stand TALL would go to Sichuan every three months to offer orthopaedics consultation and prosthetic limbs orthopaedic service to not only patients from Wenchuan Earthquake, but also from Yanan Earthquake.
To facilitate rehabilitation training for patients, Stand TALL has set up a Rehabilitation Service Outreach Station in Du Jiang Yan You Ai School. Our physiotherapists and prosthesis orthopaedist would periodically visit the school to give advice on the rehabilitation training to the students and patients nearby, and to inspect their prostheses.
The dates and locations of comprehensive medical consultation service of Stand TALL are as below: |
| 26th Dec, 2014 |
The People’s Hospital of Sichuan |
| 16th May, 2015 |
The People’s Hospital of Sichuan |
| 17th May, 2015 |
Du Jiang Yan You Ai School |
| 18th May, 2015 |
Visit to Dai Guohong, Zhang Chunmei, Zhang Feng and Chen Yechao |
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Surgeries in Hong Kong |
Among the patients dealt with by Stand TALL, most are teenagers in adolescence. Their skeletons are in rapid growth stage and bone regeneration could bring great pain to their stumps when walking in prostheses. Skin on stumps are also tent to suffers more sever abrasion. If the above happen, patients should receive stump reconditioning surgery before re-installing prosthetic limbs. This does not only resolve skin abrasion, but also give better usage of the prosthesis to improve quality of life.
Besides, for the injuries with feet deformity, Stand TALL have arranged feet orthopaedics surgeries to relieve their pain when walking and reduce foot skin abrasion, so that they can walk further and steady on their path of lives.
From August 2014 to July 2015, Stand TALL had arranged five patients to The Prince of Wales Hospital in Sha Tin for surgeries. Name list and the date are as below: |
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| Zeng Mingqiu |
High Amputation on Left Thigh |
17th July, 2015 |
| Guo Dongmei |
Amputated from Above Left Knee
Right Leg Crush Injury |
17th July, 2015 |
| He Chunxia |
Amputated from Below Left Knee
Right Lower Body Crush Injury |
17th July, 2015 |
| Deng Yangqiu |
Amputated from Above Left Knee |
17th July, 2015 |
| Kang Ruoqi |
Amputated from Below Left Knee
Right Lower body Crush Injury
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17th July, 2015 |
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Zeng Mingqiu,Female, 16 years old,
High Amputation on Left Thigh |
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With prominent cicatrix and bone regeneration, Zeng Qiuming suffered great stump pain and skin abrasion when wearing prosthesis. Stand TALL had arranged stump reconditioning surgery in Hong Kong during her summer vacation. Her situation has been ameliorated and she can continue to use prosthesis and enjoy the convenience it brought about. |
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Guo Dongmei, Female, 24 years old,
Amputated from Above Left Knee, Right Leg Crush Injury |
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Although prosthesis was installed after her left thigh was amputated, Dongmei still needed crutch to walk because of the sequelae of crush injury on the right leg. The atrophy of archilies tendon caused the insufficient load-bearing ability of the right foot. Stand TALL had made arrangement for her during summer vacation to Hong Kong for feet orthopaedics surgery. Besides gait training, we also gave Dongmei a brand new carbon fiber foot support after surgery. Currently, she is improving her gait and trying to get rid of crutch. |
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He Chunxia, Female, 39 years old,
Amputated from Below Left Knee,
Right Lower Body Crush Injury |
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He Chunxia had suffered atrophy on left stump on which bone spur had also appeared. Therefore, wearing prosthesis would bring great pain and skin abrasion. What was worse was her right archilies tendon was shrinking as the consequence of crush injury on right lower body, she had to carry two crutches to walk even prosthesis was installed on the left leg. Stand TALL had arranged left stump reconditioning and right foot orthopaedic surgeries in Hong Kong for her. The new feet orthosis has render safety to her daily activities and walking, and skin abrasion on stump is greatly relieved after surgeries. |
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Deng QiuyangMale, 23 years old,
Amputated from above Left Knee |
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Bone spur had limited Deng’s walking distance to a short range. However, he had no choice but to endure severe pain to walk for a long time due to his work. After the successful stump reconditioning surgery in Hong Kong under the arrangement of Stand TALL, he is in good recovery and able to travel for long business trip with no pressure. |
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Kang Ruoqi Femail, 17 years old,
Amputated from Below Left Knee, Right Lower body Crush Injury |
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The crush injury on the right lower body of Kang Ruoqi had caused significant atrophy in right archilies tendon, affecting her walking ability. To prevent further atrophy, Stand TALL had arranged Ruoqi to receive foot orthopaedic surgery in Hong Kong, and geared her up with rehabilitation training. Now Ruoqi’s gait ameliorates prominently. |
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