Early fitting of artificial limbs to amputated lower limbs
De Noordhout, B.M.; Pirnay, L.; de Brogniez, A.
Acta Chirurgica Belgica 104(4): 393-395
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-5458 PMID: 15469149 Document Number: 579116
Specific rehabilitation of patients with amputated lower limbs is first of all rehabilitation to walk with a prosthesis (artificial limb). After 20 years of practice of prosthetic early fitting for lower limbs amputees using practice prosthesis, the authors suggest that this technique is still up-to-date. The taking charge of amputated patients by a specialised team is an important element if one wants to achieve a good functional result. A rehabilitation milieu, where the new amputee is with a large number of patients with the same pathology, also constitutes a framework that is reassuring as well as stimulating and allows the patient to imagine the situation in which he/she can find himself/ herself a few weeks later.