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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.

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• ISBN13: 9781932603248
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This unique volume explores the mystery of phantom pain, providing a thoroughly unified approach to understanding this phenomenon from basic neuroscience to clinical practice. The author and contributors integrate the most current information on central and peripheral mechanisms of pain with data on characteristics, demography, and evaluations of treatment efforts to produce a coherent view of the problem. Special features include numerous illustrations of phantom sensations from the amputee's point of view and a guide for amputees which offers understandable information about the entire process from pre-surgical procedures to rehabilitation.

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Prosthetics and Patient Management: A Comprehensive Clinical Approach is an innovative text covering both upper and lower extremity prosthetics. All the information clinicians need to manage a range of patients with amputations and their disorders is available in this practical and all-inclusive text.Kevin Carroll and Joan E. Edelstein, together with internationally recognized leaders, present a multidisciplinary team approach to the care of a patient with an amputation.Prosthetics and Patient Management covers practical solutions to everyday problems that clinicians encounter, from early prosthetic management to issues facing the more advanced user. The text is divided into four sections encompassing the range of subjects that confront practitioners including Early Management; Rehabilitation of Patients with Lower Limb Amputation; Rehabilitation of Patients with Upper Limb Amputations; and Beyond the Basics, which includes special considerations for children and futuristic concepts.Prosthetics and Patient Management will provide expert guidance for dealing with a wide array of patients and is a must-have for clinicians and students in physical therapy, certified prosthetists, and orthopedists interested in the wide-ranging field of prosthetics and amputations.

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Psychoprosthetics is defined as the study of psychological aspects of prosthetic use and of rehabilitative processes in those conditions that require the use of prosthetic devices. Psychoprosthetics: State of the Knowledge brings together, into one easily accessible volume, the most recent and exciting research and knowledge in this new field