#rotationplasty

[disability-shout-outs]

Shout out to folks with a Rotationplasty!

[amputeeboyshere]

[gayaest]

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[mmeveronica]

I just learned about a type of leg amputation called "Rotationplasty".

Apparently if there is a medical need to amputate around the knee area, most often due to bone cancer, this surgery can be done to effectively replace your knee with your ankle and grant you more mobility and durability once you've recovered. The surgery involves the removal of the knee while preserving the nerves that run through it, and re-attaching the tibia to the femur but rotated 180° so the ankle bends the same way as the knee would.

Once someone has recovered enough they then get a prosthetic that they stand on with their now backwards foot.

It seems like rotationplasty, while rare, is mostly done for children, as it allows the 'knee' joint that the ankle becomes to grow with the child, but it is also sometimes done for adults.

I think it's really cool that surgery has become so advanced that we can preserve the nerves over such a long span of a person's body! If you're interested in a more detailed and accurate look on the procedure here is the site I read about it from.

What Is Rotationplasty?

If you have to have the middle part of your leg removed, you’ll have a couple of choices. One is amputation above the knee. The other is rot

[interdevo-devotee]

Amputee girl with foot rotated through rotationplasty, now climbing a rope. It is extremely interesting to watch the movements of her odd mirrored feet

[gayaest]

Tanaka and Kiyoko, disability introduction cards 🫶🤍

[x-creature-feature-x]

people who treat rotationplasty as some shocking disgusting thing when it's just a surgery and just how some people's legs look stfu challenge (impossible)

like that is real people you're talking about. maybe stop acting like disabled people's bodies are gross and creepy for once??

[autistic-speedbump]

Just learned about rotationplasty and though it is genuinely brilliant it is still one of the most unsettling things I have ever seen.