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Physical activity and quality of life of amputees in southern Brazil [PDF]

, 2011
Physical activity is a positive component of human health. Its effects are associated with improvement in physical, psychological and social aspects of quality of life. Physical activity is therefore an important factor in the rehabilitation of amputees.
Ramos, Valmor, da Silva, Rudney, Filho, Paulo Jose Barbosa Gutierres, Deans, Sarah, Rizzo, Julia Ghazel   +4 more
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Major Limb Amputations: A Tertiary Hospital Experience in Northwestern Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2012
Major limb amputation is reported to be a major but preventable public health problem that is associated with profound economic, social and psychological effects on the patient and family especially in developing countries where the prosthetic services ...
Mbelenge, Nkinda, Gilyoma Japhet M, Alphonce B Chandika, Gilyoma, Japhet M, Chandika Alphonce B, Isdori H Ngayomela, Dass Ramesh M, Chalya, Phillipo L, Ngayomela Isdori H, Phillipo L Chalya, Chalya Phillipo L, Joseph B Mabula, Dass, Ramesh M, Mbelenge Nkinda, Nkinda Mbelenge, Chandika, Alphonce B, Ramesh M Dass, Japhet M Gilyoma, Ngayomela, Isdori H, Mabula, Joseph B, Mabula Joseph B   +20 more
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Factors related to successful job reintegration of people with a lower limb amputation [PDF]

, 2001
Objective: To study demographically, amputation-, and employment-related factors that show a relationship to successful job reintegration of patients after lower limb amputation. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: University hospital.
van Sonderen, E., van Sonderen, E, Groothoff, JW, Goeken, LN, Boonstra, Antje, Schoppen, Tanneke, Göeken, L.N., Eisma, Willem, Groothoff, J.W., Eisma, W.H., Schoppen, T., Boonstra, A.   +11 more
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What are the key conditions associated with lower limb amputations in a major Australian teaching hospital?

Journal of Foot and Ankle Research, 2012
Background Lower extremity amputation results in significant global morbidity and mortality. Australia appears to have a paucity of studies investigating lower extremity amputation.
Lazzarini Peter A, O’Rourke Sharon R, Russell Anthony W, Clark Damien, Kuys Suzanne S   +4 more
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Developing core sets for persons following amputation based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health as a way to specify functioning [PDF]

, 2009
Amputation is a common late stage sequel of peripheral vascular disease and diabetes or a sequel of accidental trauma, civil unrest and landmines. The functional impairments affect many facets of life including but not limited to: Mobility; activities of
Stucki, Gerold, Kostanjsek, Nenad, Dillon, Michael P., Schiappacasse, Carolina, Kohler, Friedbert, Kohler, F., Burger, Helena, Kistenberg, R.S., Cieza, A., Dillon, M.P., Esquenazi, Alberto, Geertzen, Jan; id_orcid, Burger, Helena; id_orcid, Cieza, Alarcos, Schiappacasse, C., Kistenberg, Robert Steven, Geertzen, Jan, Kostanjsek, N., Esquenazi, A., Geertzen, J., Burger, H., Stucki, G.   +21 more
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Physical activity and quality of life: a study of a lower-limb amputee population [PDF]

, 2008
This cross-sectional descriptive study was initiated to investigate the relationship between physical activity and perceived quality of life in a lower-limb amputee population.
Rowe, P.J., Deans, S.A., McFadyen, A.K.
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Charcot Neuroarthropathy is Associated with Higher Rates of Phantom Limb after Major Amputation

Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics, 2022
Category: Diabetes; Trauma Introduction/Purpose: Phantom limb is a complication associated with lower extremity amputation. However, its rate in patients with Charcot Neuroarthropathy that undergo major amputation is not well-described.
Brandon J. Martinazzi BS, Hannah Nam, F. Jeffrey Lorenz, Kirsten N. Mansfield, Kelly Dopke, Anna Ptasinski, Gregory Kirchner, Michael C. Aynardi MD   +7 more
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Knee-saving Amputation by Use of a Bipedicled Four-zone Deep Inferior Epigastric Artery Perforator Flap

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2023
Summary:. Degloving traumatic lower extremity injuries can lead to an above-knee amputation with decreased functional capacity compared with below-knee amputation.
Sinem Saritas, MD, Birgitte Jul Kiil, MD, Mille Sværdborg, MD   +2 more
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External hemipelvectomy. A last resort operation

Nowotwory, 2023
An external hemipelvectomy (hindquarter amputation) is a major mutilating amputation that includes the lower extremity and half of the pelvic rim. It is rarely performed due to its mutilating character and the technical difficulties involved.
Leszek Kołodziejski, Józef Duber, Piotr Pomykacz, Andrzej L. Komorowski   +3 more
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Employment status, job characteristics and work-related health experience of people with a lower limb amputation in the Netherlands [PDF]

, 2001
Objectives: To describe the occupational situation of people with lower limb amputations in The Netherlands and to compare the health experience of workings and nonworking amputee patients with a nonimpaired reference population.
de Vries, J, Schoppen, Tanneke, Goeken, Ludwig, Eisma, W.H., Schoppen, T., Göeken, L.N.H., Johan W. Groothoff, Jaap de Vries, Tanneke Schoppen, Willem H. Eisma, de Vries, J., Groothoff, JW, Boonstra, Antje, Eisma, Willem, Groothoff, J.W., Annemarijke Boonstra, Boonstra, A.M., Ludwig N.H. Göeken   +17 more
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