AMPUTATION OF THE TIBIA. LENGTH OF THE STUMP AND REHABILITATION DURATION UNDER THE WAR CONDITIONS

The aim of the paper was to explore the functional correlation of, on one hand,the treatment and rehabilitation duration, and, on the other hand, the length of theamputation stump in the persons with the tibia amputation after explosion or shootingwounds. The cause was obtained by the random choice method from the protocols ofthe hospitalized patients. The average stump length was 19,22±3,36 cm. The correlationmethod gave very low values of the Pearson correlation coefficient (r=0,025).Such a result shows that there is no correlation between the stump length and therehabilitation duration (to the prosthesis phase). We can conclude that the stumplength in our sample is optimal for the prosthesis and that it has not considerablyaffected the rehabilitation duration when dealing with the war injuries of this type.