Best Patient\u0092s Blog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nThis blog made it into the final list. If you would not mind, please check them out and maybe read some of these.<\/p>\n
So I am very much aware of the fact that upper extremity amputees are neither ‘patients’ (more ‘disabled’, ‘affected’ or maybe ‘concerned’ than ‘patients’) and so this isn’t even a ‘patient’s blog’.<\/p>\n
On top of that, we are a tiny community – too tiny to count also among the disabled or ill. Actually it is our problem that even in the field of orthopedics,\u00a0we simply do not count<\/em>.<\/p>\nWith some simple incidence figures, we can estimate an expected outcome of this vote for community size estimates:<\/p>\n
Some incidence figures [rough Google-based approximations]:<\/span><\/p>\nDepression ~15-25%
\nSocial phobia ~3.7%<\/p>\n
Post-traumatic stress disorder ~3.6%
\nGeneralized anxiety disorder ~2.8%
\nObsessive-compulsive disorder ~2.3%
\nAutoimmune disorders ~ 1%<\/p>\n
Diabetes ~ 0.6%
\nPost-partum mood swings ~40% of women after childbirth so overall ~ 0,3%
\nParkinson’s disease ~0.2%
\nMultiple sclerosis: ~ 0.1%
\nBorderline personality disorder ~0.07%
\nRheumatoid arthritis ~0.07%<\/p>\n
Lower extremity amputation ~0.03%
\nUpper extremity amputation ~0.002%<\/p>\n
So let us run these incidence figures against the actual votes to see who, relative to the community size, got the most votes:<\/p>\n
\n\n\n| Blog<\/td>\n | Diagnosis<\/td>\n | Incidence estimate [%]<\/td>\n | Votes[%]<\/td>\n | Votes\/Incidence estimate ratio<\/td>\n | Absolute rank<\/td>\n | Relative rank<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Wheelchair Kamikaze<\/td>\n | Multiple sclerosis<\/td>\n | ~0.1%<\/td>\n | 46%<\/td>\n | 460<\/td>\n | 1<\/td>\n | 2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Six Until Me<\/td>\n | Diabetes<\/td>\n | ~0.6%<\/td>\n | 35%<\/td>\n | 59<\/td>\n | 2<\/td>\n | 3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Postpartum Progress<\/td>\n | Post-partum mood swings<\/td>\n | ~0.3%<\/td>\n | 8%<\/td>\n | 26<\/td>\n | 3<\/td>\n | 6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| itis<\/td>\n | Rheumatoid arthritis<\/td>\n | ~0.07%<\/td>\n | 3%<\/td>\n | 42<\/td>\n | 4\/5<\/td>\n | 4\/5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Queen of Optimism<\/td>\n | Autoimmune disorder<\/td>\n | ~1%<\/td>\n | 3%<\/td>\n | 3<\/td>\n | 4\/5<\/td>\n | 7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\n| Rheuma Blog<\/td>\n | Rheumatoid arthritis<\/td>\n | ~0.07%<\/td>\n | 3%<\/td>\n | 42<\/td>\n | 6<\/td>\n | 4\/5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n |
\ntechnical right below elbow amputee issues<\/strong><\/td>\n| upper extremity amputation<\/td>\n | ~0.002%<\/td>\n | 2%<\/td>\n | 1000<\/strong><\/td>\n| 7<\/td>\n | 1<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n So measured against the quantitative (un)importance of our relative communities, this blog site rocks. Thanks for your support and interest, guys.<\/p>\n\n | | |
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