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8 unusual facts about Amputation


Boxing Helena

After she is injured in a grievous hit-and-run motor vehicle accident in front of his home, he kidnaps and treats her in his house surreptitiously, amputating both of her legs.

Fadi Kafisha

In 2004 Kafisha was wounded during a confrontation with IDF soldiers and his arm was amputated.

Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America

Distinguished life veterans are those who are otherwise eligible to active or associate membership and are certified by the National Executive Director as a "service-connected paraplegic, a double amputee, or is suffering from a service connected total blindness."

LeCharles Bentley

Bentley revealed that he had undergone four operations since getting hurt, the final two to clean out a staph infection that ate away at his tendon and a virus that became so severe that doctors considered amputating his leg.

Mondo Trasho

Divine finally takes the unconscious Bombshell to Dr. Coathanger (David Lochary), who amputates her feet and replaces them with bird-like monster feet which she can tap together to transport herself around Baltimore.

Napoleon McCallum

Had the surgery not gone as planned, there was a chance his left leg would have been amputated.

Ron Springs

Springs was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1990, which led to him having both his right foot and two toes from the left amputated.

Wilmot Brookings

Brookings made it safely to Yankton, but his wet legs had suffered such severe frostbite they both needed to be amputated.


Butchered at Birth

“Rancid Amputation” was given a lounge music rearrangement by Andrew Hansen of the Australian comedy team The Chaser in July 2006 when the band came under controversy due to their lyrical content prior to touring in Australia.

Jens Bjørneboe

Bjørneboe also wrote a number of plays, among them The Bird Lovers (Fugleelskerne, 1966), Semmelweis (1968) and Amputation (Amputasjon, 1970), a collaboration with Eugenio Barba and the Danish theatre ensemble Odin Teatret.

John Bobbitt

John Bobbitt, (born 1967) an American victim of penile amputation

John Swainson

Swainson served in the United States Army during World War II with the 95th Infantry Division and lost both legs by amputation following a land mine explosion November 15, 1944, near Metz, Alsace-Lorraine.

Marek Petrusewicz

Buerger's disease resulted in amputation of his both legs, one in 1967 and the other in 1983.

Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre

Specialist services, such as the treatment of Osteomyelitis and bone tumours, and the rehabilitation of those with limb amputation or congenital deficiency, and those with neurological disabilities are provided for patients from across the UK and abroad.

Philip Verheyen

It is also important to state here that the surgeon who performed Verheyen's amputation in Leiden had been a student of the anatomist Frederik Ruysch and on the patient's insistence had preserved his amputated leg for possible further study at a later date.


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