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Hyperspectral Imaging Reveals High Water and Hemoglobin Content at Rest and Decreased Oxygen Levels After Physical Activity at the Residual Limb of Non-Dysvascular Lower Limb Amputees. [PDF]
MicrocirculationABSTRACT Objective Skin integrity is one factor determining residual limb health. Oxygen deficiency caused by energy consumption and/or mechanical stress is the most common reason for skin breakdown at the residual limb (RL), limiting physical activity and causing residual limb pain (RLP).
Pardo LA +6 more
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Prescription of Graded Motor Imagery for People With Chronic Pain: A Scoping Review [PDF]
Eur J PainABSTRACT Background This scoping review investigates how graded motor imagery (GMI) and its individual components (left/right judgments, imagined movements and mirror therapy) are applied in clinical trials for people with chronic pain conditions.
Williams S +9 more
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Can a Smartphone be used for Balance Assessment during Walking in Lower Limb Amputees?
Journal of Rehabilitation Sciences and Research, 2020 Background:Nowadays, smartphones are equipped with an accelerometer module that can measure and record the body linear accelerations during walking.
Mohammad Reza Rezaie +2 more
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EVALUATION OF LOCALIZED PAIN IN THE TRANSTIBIAL RESIDUAL LIMB
Canadian Prosthetics & Orthotics Journal, 2018 PURPOSE The socket is the main component of a prosthesis which surrounds the residual limb and transfers loads and motions between the residual limb and prosthesis.
Kamiar Ghoseiri +2 more
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Living with Amputation: Anxiety and Depression Correlates [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016 Introduction: Trauma accounts for 16% of the total burden of disease in the world, making it a leading cause of morbidity and mortality especially in the developing nations.
Sukriti Bhutani +3 more
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Amputation-related phantom limb pain in Nigeria: A prospective cohort study
Nigerian Journal of Medicine, 2020 Background: Phantom limb pain (PLP) is a common and distressing complication of limb amputations. Literature on PLP in Nigeria and indeed Africa is scant despite the high rate of amputations in published works.
Arinze D. G. Nwosu +4 more
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Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2020 Background: The study assessed the effect of psychological correlates of traumatic experiences on coping strategies of post-amputation basing on evidence from Mulago specialized national hospital, Kampala-Uganda.
SULAIMAN MAHMOOD KAKOOZA +3 more
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Quality of life among amputees: A mediating role of social support
Medical Journal of Babylon, 2023 Background: Social support for amputee patients can get them out of the atmosphere of illness or disability and inspire them with a great deal of optimism and hope and make them forget the missing part, even if temporarily. Objectives: The study aimed to
Rusull Hamza Kh AL-Jubori +2 more
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eLife, 2019 A key question in neuroscience is how cortical organisation relates to experience. Previously we showed that amputees experiencing highly vivid phantom sensations maintain cortical representation of their missing hand (Kikkert et al., 2016).
Daan B Wesselink +7 more
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Quality of Life and Its Related Factors Among Amputees in Babylon Province, Iraq [PDF]
Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, 2023 Objectives: Disability is a social problem with multiple interrelated aspects, including medical, psychological, social, and rehabilitative. The number of people with disabilities has increased recently, despite the great advances in the medical field ...
Rusull Hamza Kh AL-Jubori +2 more
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