[Treatment and rehabilitation of dysmelic children].

It is reasonable to make the plan of treatment and rehabilitation of dysmelic children in infancy and to realize it after an agreement with the parents, if possible in a care system. A careful operative indication considering the possibilities of orthetic-prothetic supply from every respect is necessary. The supply of the orthopaedic apparatus is generally individually planned and it succeeds only rarely to use standard prosthesis and orthesis. It is worthwhile to strive that the rehabilitation procedure should enable the child to go to the general school in the usual time. Based on the presentation of a few cases the author describes the ground principles of treatment-rehabilitation summarized in the paper.