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Amputee Board for Below-Knee Amputees

Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 1982
This article describes the materials and the method required for the construction of an amputee board for either left or right below-knee amputees. This board is intended to be used for elevating the stump and maintaining knee extension in the amputated limb while the patient sits in wheelchair. It also allows for ease and safety during transfers.
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REHABILITATION OF GERIATRIC AMPUTEES

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1969
A bstract The study group comprised 60 indigent patients (average age, 70) in a public hospital who had undergone amputations of the lower extremity, chiefly because of gangrene.
R C, Cheek, L G, Britt
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Geriatric Amputee Rehabilitation

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1993
Comprehensive rehabilitation of the amputee should be more than the provision of a prosthetic device. This is especially true for the geriatric amputee, whose needs are greater because of comorbidity, fragile social supports, and limited resources.
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The Cancer Amputee and Sexuality

Orthopaedic Nursing, 1999
To the person experiencing amputation, the loss of a limb has a serious psychosexual impact. Whatever the age, the surgical procedure itself, pain, deformity, inability to perform simple customary acts, economic threat, and many other problems impose on the person facing the loss of their limb. Commonly, concentration is focused on functional abilities
J A, Shell, M E, Miller
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Rehabilitation of hemiplegic amputees

International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1987
The authors report on results of rehabilitation of their 49 hemiplegic amputee cases. Most of the patients had vascular disease. A majority of them had also other conditions with negative effects on rehabilitation. 29 patients achieved walking, 14 used a wheelchair, three remained bedridden and another three died during the hospitalization.
L, Kullmann, M, Endres
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REHABILITATION OF THE HEMIPLEGIC AMPUTEE

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1954
Until recent years there had been relatively little discussion in the literature of the problems of the hemiplegic, and few concise reports about prostheses and the training of amputees. With the impetus of World War II and the Korean conflict, many important contributions to the treatment of hemiplegics and amputees have been made.
A O, POSNIAK, C, LONG, M M, DACSO, H A, RUSK   +3 more
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The Quality of Hope for the Amputee

Archives of Surgery, 1975
Maintenance of hope for the future is vital to the psychological well-being of an amputee. It enlists his cooperation and that of his family in therapeutic efforts on his behalf. But if the surgeon ebulliently instills in the amputee an unrealistic concept of potential for future function, he creates a basis for later disillusion that is sure to lead ...
L W, Friedmann, L, Friedmann
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Welfare of feline amputees

Veterinary Record, 2009
As part of research into the welfare of feline limb and tail amputees, we aim to characterise the feline amputee population of the UK, and obtain information on owner perception of feline recovery and adaptation.
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A Psychiatric Study of Amputees

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1982
SummaryPsychiatric manifestations were studied in 72 amputees in the post-operative period. All were right handed. Besides phantom limb phenomena, which were observed in nearly four-fifths of the cases and are described in another paper, nearly two-thirds had psychiatric symptoms in the form of depression (45 patients), anxiety (38), crying spells (38),
G D, Shukla, S C, Sahu, R P, Tripathi, D K, Gupta   +3 more
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Rehabilitation of the Amputee

Military Medicine, 1950
O F, VON WERSSOWETZ, M W, BAUM
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