Amputation, prosthesis use, and phantom limb pain:an interdisciplinary perspective

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Group Author: Murray Craig D.
Published: Springer,
Publisher Address: New York London
Publication Dates: 2009.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87462-3
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (ix, 203 p.): ill.
ISBN: 9780387874623 (electr. bk.)
0387874623 (electr. bk.)
Index Number: R318
CLC: R318.08
Contents: Developing an interdisciplinary perspective on amputation, prosthesis use, and phantom limb pain: an introduction -- Need-directed design of prostheses and enabling resources -- Ethical and medico-legal issues in amputee prosthetic rehabilitation -- Monitoring of upper limb prosthesis activity in trans-radial amputees -- Adaptation to amputation and prosthesis use -- Understanding adjustment and coping to limb loss and absence through phenomenologies of prosthesis use -- Return to work after amputation -- Gender, sexuality and prosthesis use: implications for rehabilitation -- Post amputation chronic pain profile and management -- Phantom limb pain: prevalence, mechanisms and associated factors -- Management of phantom limb pain -- Virtual solutions phantom problems: using immersive virtual reality to treat phantom limb pain.