Lower Limb Amputation: A Guide to Living a Quality Life

✍ Scribed by M.D. Adrian Cristian

• Publisher: Demos Health
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 146
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Limb loss can occur due to trauma, infection, diabetes, vascular disease, cancer and other diseases. Lower limb amputation is relatively common and has a profound impact on a person's life, regardless of the cause. Feelings of loss and grief, difficulties in learning to walk with an artificial limb, and readjustment to an interrupted life all pose considerable challenges. Nevertheless, there are countless stories of people who have successfully overcome these problems.This book provides the practical knowledge needed to cope with the life changes caused by lower limb amputation. It demystifies the medical process and technical jargon by using plain, easily understandable language. The first book to combine medical, prosthetic, and psychosocial factors in one convenient volume, it covers causes and ways to prevent further amputation; surgical techniques for lower limb amputation; learning to walk with a prosthesis; unique challenges faced by children and elderly people living with an amputation; exercising and sports with a lower limb prosthesis; and much more.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
The Causes of Lower Limb Amputation......Page 21
Prevention of Additional Amputations......Page 27
Amputation Surgery......Page 31
The Early Post-Surgical Period of Recovery......Page 37
The Rehabilitation Unit and the “Rehab” Team......Page 47
The Prosthesis......Page 53
Walking with a Prosthesis......Page 73
Returning Home with a Prosthesis......Page 87
Problems Commonly Encountered by Lower Limb Amputees......Page 91
Follow-Up Visits to the Rehabilitation Clinic......Page 95
The Older, Frail Amputee......Page 97
The Bilateral Amputee......Page 103
The Child with a Lower Limb Amputation......Page 107
Sports and the Lower Limb Amputee......Page 115
Coping with the Loss of a Limb......Page 123
Glossary......Page 133
References......Page 137
Resources......Page 138
c......Page 141
h......Page 142
p......Page 143
s......Page 145
w......Page 146