By the Numbers/Amputee statistics in Japan

By the Numbers/Amputee statistics in Japan

Akio Nakagawa

2/7/2001

Dear Tony Barr, Peter Poetsma, Stephen Blatchford and List members;

Tony showed the statistics of the number of amputees in the United States and
Stephan showed that in UK. I think many of you are interested in a
statistics of one of provinces in Japan. We have information of the number
of lower limb amputees who used prostheses. We also have year-to-year data
of new amputees. This time, I show you a part of that. The number of
bilateral amputees is very small. The background population is about 3.7
million. For your information, Japanese population is about 127 million. I
am not sure whether we can guess the number of amputees in Japan from this
statistics.

In our province (Hyogo Prefecture, background population is 3.7 million)
Total of lower limb unilateral amputees: 1353
  This may include amputees already dead.

New lower limb unilateral amputees in 1996: 44
 Accident at work: 1
 Traffic Accident: 5
 War: 0
 Miscellaneous injury: 3
 Arteriosclerosis: 16
 Diabetes mellitus: 12
 Arteriosclerosis+Diabetes mellitus: 3
 Berger: 0
 Miscellaneous P.V.D.: 0
 Tumor: 4
 Miscellaneous disease: 0
 Congenital deficiency: 0
 Unknown: 0

Age at amputation from 1993 to 1997:
 0 to 19: 9
 20 to 39: 13
 40 to 59: 49
 60 to 79: 98
 over 79: 26
  total (from 1993 to 1997): 195

These data are from Isao Ojima, PT of our rehabilitation center.
If you have any question or you need more information, contact him at
<Email Address Redacted>



Akio Nakagawa,
Research Engineer,
Assistech at Hyogo Rehabilitation Centre,
1070 Akebono-cho, Nishi-ku,
Kobe, 651-2181, JAPAN.
Tel +81 78 925 9283 Fax +81 78 925 9284
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