OBJECTIVE To explore adults' experiences of lower limb amputation, focusing on the changes in self-identity related to the impairment. DESIGN A cross-sectional and qualitative study, using semi-structured interviews. Interviews were transcribed, coded and analysed by two independent researchers. SETTING A rehabilitation medicine service from a general public hospital. PARTICIPANTS A conve...

This paper describes an upper division elective course in rehabilitation engineering that addresses prosthetics and orthotics, wheelchair design, seating and positioning, and automobile modifications for individuals with disabilities. Faculty lectures are enhanced by guest lectures and class field trips. Guest lecturers include a prosthetist and a lower extremity amputee client, an engineer/pro...

BACKGROUND Personal protection equipment, improved early medical care, and rapid extraction of the casualty have resulted in more injured service members who served in Afghanistan surviving after severe military trauma. Many of those who survive the initial trauma are faced with complex wounds such as multiple amputations. Although costs of care can be high, they have not been well quantified b...

Late Sequelae of Amputation reports an extensive investigation of the late effects of amputation on the general health of the amputee. The subjects in the present series were Finnish war veterans disabled during the 1939-1945 wars and made available for the study while attending a government-sponsored three-week course of rehabilitation at the Kaskisaari Rehabilitation Center in Helsinki. The a...

Abstract Purpose of Review This systematic review aims to evaluate physical performance outcome tools that are used most frequently assess rehabilitation interventions. The scope this paper focused on outcomes with established lower limb amputees when assessing interventions such as exercise programs or changes in prescription published the last 5 years. Recent Findings recorded measures across...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of weakness of the bilateral triceps surae muscles-the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles-in astasia without abasia and whether compensating for muscle weakness with ankle-foot orthoses improves this disability. DESIGN Case-control study of clinical findings and before and after trial of ankle-foot orthoses. SETTING Clinics of the departments of rehabilitatio...

BACKGROUND A divide is experienced between producers and users of evidence in prosthetic rehabilitation. OBJECTIVE To discuss the complexity inherent in establishing evidence-based practice in a prosthetic rehabilitation team illustrated by the case of prosthetic prescription for elderly dysvascular transfemoral amputee patients. STUDY DESIGN A qualitative research design was used, in which...

background: assessment of quality of life can promote health services. the purpose of this study was evaluation of health related quality of life in lower limbs amputee veterans of iran. methods: in the present cross sectional study, we compared 38 lower limbs amputee veterans with 50 normal healthy subjects with sf36 questioner in face-to-face interview. results: amputees had significantly low...

1 Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics, Associate Director of Rehabilitation, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Fla. 33152. 2 Director, Prosthetic-Orthotic Center, Northwestern University Medical Center, Chicago, Ill. 60611. 3 Orthotic Division, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, Ind. 46207. There is liittle question that the field of orthotics has taken a back seat to...

OBJECTIVE Assessing a patient's ability to walk the distance required for community ambulation (at least 300 m) is important in amputee rehabilitation. During the 2-min walk test, most amputees cannot walk 300 m. Thus, the 6-min walk test may be preferred, but it has not been fully validated in this population. This study examined the convergent and discriminative validity of the 6-min walk tes...