Orthotics and Prosthetics

NEW PUBLICATIONS
PROCEEDINGS, FIRST INTERNATIONAL
CONGRESS ON PROSTHETICS TECH­
NIQUES AND FUNCTIONAL REHABILI­
TATION, sponsored by the World Veterans
Federation, with the cooperation of the International
Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics,
March 19-24, 1973, Vienna, Austria, 4 Volumes,
1157 pp., 300 Austrian Schillings, Available
from Weiner Medizinische Akademie,
Stadiongasse 6-8, A1010 Vienna, Austria.
This report contains more than 200 papers presented
at the First International Congress on
Prosthetics Techniques and Functional Rehabilitation.
Although the papers are short, averaging
about five pages each, and most, therefore, do
not go into detail, nearly every aspect of research
and practice in limb prosthetics and orthotics is
touched upon. Most of the presentations are concerned
with prosthetics, and are in English, although
a few are in German and French. Although
few of the articles are well illustrated, this
4-volume publication is an excellent reference
source and should be available to everyone involved
in research in prosthetics and orthotics. It
will be also of tremendous interest to clinicians
who want to keep up to date by introducing into
their practice the latest findings from research.
COMPREHENSIVE MANAGEMENT OF
MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS IN
HEMOPHILIA, (Report of) A Symposium
held in Miami Beach, Florida, October 12-14,
1972; edited by Newton C. McCollough, III,
Committee on Prosthetics Research and Development,
National Academy of Sciences,
Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 214 pp, $6.25.
This book contains the lectures and following
discussions which were given during a symposium
about the methods of treating musculoskeletal
disorders in hemophilia.
The result is a rather complete synopsis of the
present level of knowledge in the problems of
hemophilia. Besides a lucid and understandable
representation of questions concerning
pathogenesis and pathological physiology, the
authors have clinical problems primarily in view,
and therefore concentrate on the possibilities and
necessities for provision of orthoses for the
hemophilic patient. Furthermore, the authors describe
the possibilities of surgical proceedings in
case of deformities and severe arthrosis deformans
occurring because of intra-articular bleeding.
It also refers to synovectomy when conservative
treatment has failed.
In conclusion, one finds directions of management
which are valuable in case of planning a
hemophilia center. The actual problems are
clearly described in this book, and while reading
the papers thoroughly, one can find multiple impulses
for further research in this field.
F. Koch (Heidelberg)
ADVANCES IN EXTERNAL CONTROL OF
HUMAN EXTREMITIES, Proceedings of the
Fourth International Symposium on External
Control of Human Extremities, Dubrovnik,
August 28-September 2, 1972; Edited by Momcilo
M. Gavrilovic and A. Bennett Wilson, Jr.,
Yugoslav Committee for Electronics and Automation
(ETAN), Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 803
pp. $20.
As indicated in the title, this massive volume is
composed of the papers presented at the Fourth
International Symposium on External Control of
Human Extremities. This series of symposia continues
to attract more and more workers
throughout the world who are engaged in research
and development concerning externally
powered prostheses and orthoses and related
work such as the stimulation of denervated muscle
for function. This is not a book that most
clinicians will want to do more than peruse, but it
is a publication that all people involved in rehabilitation
engineering research and development
should have because it contains information
concerning nearly every past and present project
in the field of externally powered prostheses and
orthoses, plus a great deal more in allied areas.
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