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Item “Amputación de miembro inferior a causa de osteomielitis”(Universidad Técnica de Ambato - Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud - Carrera de Terapia Fisica, 2017-03-01) Andrade García, Vanessa Alexandra; López Mesa, Gorgis Dr.Among the diseases that account for the highest annual health burden are those due to environmental factors, such as road traffic injuries. "Every year, traffic accidents cause the death of approximately 1.25 million people worldwide, between 20 million and 50 million people suffer non-fatal injuries, and in turn a proportion of these suffer some form of disability". Ecuador is the second country in Latin American mortality due to traffic accidents according to the Global State Report on road safety at the World Health Organization (WHO). The data obtained show that a traffic accident is a cause of physical disability depending on the complexity of the injury and post-surgical complications. The present case analysis refers to an adult of 43 years, who after suffering a traffic accident, had exposed fractures of his lower limbs, which led to a complication called osteomyelitis characterized as an infectious process with progressive destruction of tissues soft and bony. Due to the difficult control of the infection, the patient visited several Hospital Medical Units inside and outside the country without obtaining a favorable evolution during 3 years, the doctors who followed the case decide that amputation is the only surgical medical procedure to curb the infection and safeguard their life, constituting in the long term a physical disability due to the member's recession. However prosthetic adaptation allows you to reintegrate into your daily activities, the proposed rehabilitative treatment is based on short, medium and long term objectives to avoid stump deformities and gait complications.