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difficult to answer for a few reasons. Toe transfers can be done as can biomechanical and static prosthesis be fitted. A lot depends on the injuries to tendons (and nerves) which control these. If the burns were deeper than skin and affected the tendons and /or nerves, no benefit to mechanical since it can't be 'driven' by her ability to move via tendons.
If all is intact at that level, then the possibility is there to have a movable prosthesis. They ususally wait until the healed skin and structures can support a biomechanical or tissue transfer ....sometimes waiting up to a year.
Hope that helped
ss
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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