More than half of persons with lower limb amputation suffer from chronic back pain or residual limb pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis

Abstract

More than half of persons with lower limb amputation suffer from chronic back pain or residual limb pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis, Disability and Rehabilitation,

Osseointegrated prostheses for the rehabilitation of patients with transfemoral amputations: A prospective ten-year cohort study of patient-reported outcomes and complications

“…Other limitations in the OPRA study design include the lack of a comparable control group with SPs, the relatively small number of patients included, the mixture of patients having both unilateral and bilateral TFAs and the absence of systematically registered prosthetic device details (i.e., type of prosthetic knee and foot components). Finally, this ten-year follow-up did not include details about other complications commonly reported among individuals living for decades with a lower-limb amputation, such as low back pain, phantom limb pain, falls, and arthrosis in the lower extremity [ 39 , 40 ].…”

Biomechanical risk factors for knee osteoarthritis and lower back pain in lower limb amputees: protocol for a systematic review

“…Counterintuitively, some research suggests that this lower activity status and prosthetic use may result in TFAs having a reduced risk of developing LBP compared with traumatic amputees 16 18. Unfortunately, despite a much higher prevalence of dysvascular amputations, gait biomechanics research within this population is relatively limited, especially compared with the high proportion of research surrounding traumatic amputations 4 11 18 22–25. We therefore need to determine whether current research, investigating the development of secondary disorders primarily in traumatic amputees, is generalisable to dysvascular amputees, and if there are any additional biomechanical factors specific to dysvascular amputees that would increase or decrease their likelihood of developing KOA and LBP.…”