Early Fitting of Artificial Limbs to Amputated Lower Limbs

Autor: B. Maertens De Noordhout, L Pirnay, A. De Brogniez
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Acta Chirurgica Belgica. 104:393-395
ISSN: 0001-5458
DOI: 10.1080/00015458.2004.11679580
Popis: Specific rehabilitation of patients with amputated lower limbs is first of all rehabilitation to walk with a prosthesis (artificial limb). After 20 years of practice of prosthetic early fitting for lower limbs amputees using practice prosthesis, the authors suggest that this technique is still up-to-date. The taking charge of amputated patients by a specialised team is an important element if one wants to achieve a good functional result. A rehabilitation milieu, where the new amputee is with a large number of patients with the same pathology, also constitutes a framework that is reassuring as well as stimulating and allows the patient to imagine the situation in which he/she can find himself/ herself a few weeks later.
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