The War Amputations Of Canada: Addressing The Needs Of Canadian Amputees

dc.contributor.author	Fifield, Adele	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2011-10-04T16:09:37Z
dc.date.available	2011-10-04T16:09:37Z
dc.date.issued	1999	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	From "MEC 99," Proceedings of the 1999 MyoElectric Controls/Powered Prosthetics Symposium Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: August, 1999. Copyright University of New Brunswick.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10161/4931
dc.description.abstract	I lost a leg to cancer at the age of 13. I became a member of The War Amps Child Amputee Program, or CHAMP as it is better known, shortly theteafter. For the last 10 years I have worked with the War Amps and am presently its Director of the National Amputee Centre and Director of Prosthetics and Counselling. In that time, I have attended over a dozen prosthetic conferences to keep up-to-date on artificial limbs and to pass that information on to Canadian amputees. The War Amputations of Canada is a charitable organization that has been in mdstence for ovet 80 years and I will share with you an overview of our history and what we do.	en_US
dc.publisher	Myoelectric Symposium	en_US
dc.title	The War Amputations Of Canada: Addressing The Needs Of Canadian Amputees	en_US