Lower limb amputation : a guide to living a quality life / Adrian Cristian.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Cristian, Adrian, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Leg--Amputation--Popular works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Demos Medical Pub., c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 demystifie

Contents:

• Introduction
• The causes of lower limb amputation
• Prevention of additional amputations
• Amputation surgery
• The early post-surgical period of recovery
• The rehabilitation unit and the "rehab" team
• The prosthesis
• Walking with a prosthesis
• Returning home with a prosthesis
• Problems commonly encountered by lower limb amputees
• Follow-up visits to the rehabilitation clinic
• The older, frail amputee
• The bilateral amputee
• The child with an amputation
• Sports and the lower limb amputee
• Coping with the loss of a limb.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-124) and index.

ISBN:

• 1-281-97501-X
• 9786611975012
• 1-934559-23-7

OCLC:

476045415