The purpose of this study was to identify factors considered to be important in the adjustment to amputation and the wearing of a prosthetic limb from the perspective of the person who has had a lower limb amputation. Hence, focus group methodology was employed as a means of acquiring perspectives within a population of young adults who had a lower limb amputation. Preliminary thematic analysis...

While much attention is being given in the application of advanced technologies to improve upper extremity prostheses, traditional body-powered prostheses still remain the most popular by people with an amputation. A body-powered prosthesis provides the user with a reasonable solution for limb loss given their simple design, lower maintenance and initial cost. The two major types of body-powere...

Background: The autonomic nervous system is the main determinant of blood flow directed towards a body part, and it tightly connected to representation in brain; would experimental modulation sense ownership limb affect its perfusion? Methods: In healthy participants, we employed rubber hand illusion paradigm modulate while monitor...

Five hundred lower limb amputees were evaluated by personal interview at the Artificial Limb Centre, Pune, India. Information thus obtained on activities of daily living and functional capabilities with their prostheses was analysed. The analysis showed that 55% of the amputees were totally independent, 40% had to use a crutch or cane and only 5% were solely dependent on a wheelchair for ambula...

SUMMARY The ability of certain organisms to completely regenerate lost limbs is a fascinating process, far from solved. Despite the extraordinary published efforts during the past centuries of scientists performing amputations, transplantations and molecular experiments, no mechanistic model exists yet that can completely explain patterning during the limb regeneration process. The lack of a ce...

Could it be possible that, in the not-so-distant future, we will be able to reshape the human body so as to have extra limbs? A third arm helping us out with the weekly shopping in the local grocery store, or an extra artificial limb assisting a paralysed person? Here we report a perceptual illusion in which a rubber right hand, placed beside the real hand in full view of the participant, is pe...

AMPUTATION of a limb is a serious and irrevocable step, to be undertaken only when no other course of action is possible. Despite recent advances in arterial surgery, amputations will continue to be necessary and although there has been recent interest in the Stokes Gritti (Martin and Wickham, 1962) and Through Knee techniques (Gillis, 1961), many surgeons continue to remove the leg at the stan...

An artificial limb is a type of prosthesis that replaces a missing extremity, such as arms or legs. The type of artificial limb required is determined by the availability of the left over stump after amputation. The main problem faced by the patients after amputation or paralysis is muscle atrophy caused due to nonfunctionality of the stump. The limited functionality leads to very limited flow ...