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Frontiers in Rehabilitation SciencesTechnological advancements of prostheses in recent years, such as haptic feedback, active power, and machine learning for prosthetic control, have opened new doors for improved functioning, satisfaction, and overall quality of life.
Hayden Gavette +6 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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Early Outcomes in Targeted Muscle Reinnervation for Traumatic Amputations
Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery Open, 2023 Background Traumatic amputees commonly experience residual limb pain (RLP) and phantom limb pain (PLP) which present major barriers to rehabilitation. An evolving treatment, targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR), shows promise in reducing these symptoms ...
Stephen R. Denton +3 more
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Action and non-action oriented body representations. insight from behavioural and grey matter modifications in individuals with lower limb amputation [PDF]
, 2018 Following current model of body representations, we aimed to systematically investigate the association between brain modifications, in terms of grey matter loss, and body representation deficits, in terms of alterations of the body schema (BS) and of ...
Boccia, Maddalena +8 more
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Journal of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Rehabilitation, 2022 Background: Transtibial amputation and subsequent prosthetic fitting can cause prolonged hospital length of stay (LOS). Recently, a two-staged admission pathway for new transtibial amputees was introduced in a local hospital to shorten hospital LOS ...
Hung Leong-Pan +2 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 IntroductionThe stump site of amputees is clinically vulnerable and prone to various skin diseases. Data regarding the impact on quality of life (QoL) of amputees with amputation stump skin disease (ASSD) and risk factors of ASSD and stump fungal ...
Yanqiao Li +7 more
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Temporal adaptations in generic and population-specific quality of life and falls efficacy in men with recent lower-limb amputations [PDF]
, 2013 This study examined the longitudinal changes in generic health-related quality of life (QOL), prosthesis-related QOL, falls efficacy, and walking speed in men with lower-limb amputations up to 6 months following discharge from rehabilitation.
Barnett, CT, Polman, RCJ, Vanicek, N
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A dedicated amputee sports programme improves physical functioning and sports participation
Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine - Clinical Communications, 2023 Objective: People with a lower-limb amputation often have a sedentary lifestyle and increasing physical activity is important to optimize their health and quality of life. To achieve this the Amputee Parateam programme was developed.
Wieneke van Oorschot +2 more
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Stable fixation of an osseointegated implant system for above-the-knee amputees: titel RSA and radiographic evaluation of migration and bone remodeling in 55 cases. [PDF]
, 2012 Background and purposeRehabilitation of patients with transfemoral amputations is particularly difficult due to problems in using standard socket prostheses.
Antonellis, Anne +5 more
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