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Rehabilitation in Practice

A picture of amputees and the prosthetic situation in Haiti

J Bigelow Healing Hands for Haiti Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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M Korth Healing Hands for Haiti Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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J Jacobs Healing Hands for Haiti Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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N Anger Healing Hands for Haiti Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
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M Riddle Healing Hands for Haiti Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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J Gifford Healing Hands for Haiti Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USACorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 246-252 | Accepted 01 Oct 2003, Published online: 07 Jul 2009

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