I am childish

[marydell]

I'm reading a fancy journal article about the use of prosthetics by kids with upper-limb deficiencies.  Upper-limb amputations are labeled according to where the limb ends--what Charlie has is an elbow disarticulation, ED for short.  Most kids with congenital upper limb amputations have a below-elbow disarticulation, or BED, so that is the focus of the article.

So one of the big headings in the article says "DO PROSTHESES HELP FUNCTION IN BED?" 

Snerk

Comments

[mellybrelly.livejournal.com]

that's too funny

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

One has to wonder whether someone made those acronyms on purpose, just so people could snerk at titles like that. I mean, physicists deliberately named subatomic particles after odd things.

But now, if I should see an advertisement for ED I will no longer be stuck thinking of erectile dysfunction, for elbow disarticulation is much more fun.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

It also stands for Eating Disorder, so it's three kinds of fun! Or, um, three kinds of absence of fun.

[queen-nala.livejournal.com]

do you have a link to that article?

[marydell.livejournal.com]

It's not available freely online, but I have a pdf I can email you if you PM me your email addy. I'll also be doing a post within the next couple of days with some links and a summary of everything I've been reading lately about prosthetics. The nutshell version - a large percentage of kids with congenital upper limb differences reject their prosthetics, mainly because the prosthetics don't actually add functionality in everyday tasks.

[queen-nala.livejournal.com]

great, I will PM you. And I have heard the same thing to be true about people with upper limb differences.

[queen-nala.livejournal.com]

I have never heard those abbreviations before...We use LBE (left below elbow) for Gavin and Charlie would be LAE (left above elbow).

[marydell.livejournal.com]

It's probably different in different countries. Charlie wouldn't be above-elbow because he has his full humerus, and a tiny bit of bone below that but no joint. So they class it as "at the elbow" = elbow disarticulation in local nomenclature.

[queen-nala.livejournal.com]

ahhh OK. I see.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

Well, they do make all those different hand-attachments...

Nevermind. *attempts to don angelic mein*

[marydell.livejournal.com]

LOL! this is true. I suppose that explains why they only make the various specialized not-really-hand thingies for adults.

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

AWESOME.