Weight-bearing
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weight-bearing-167-7806594
title:
Weight-bearing
text:
In orthopedics, weight-bearing is the amount of weight a patient puts on an injured body part. Generally, it refers to a leg, ankle or foot that has been fractured or upon which surgery has been performed, but the term can also be used to refer to resting on an arm or a wrist. In general, it is described as a percentage of the body weight, because each leg of a healthy person carries the full body weight when walking, in an alternating fashion. After surgery of the hip, or of the bones of the le
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Orthopedics term
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight-bearing
date created:
2003-09-14T16:45:14Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T13:35:36Z
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