Rehabilitation of Individuals with Limb Loss due to Trauma

The Psychoanalytic Anthropology of Third-Millennium Medicine

“…These kinds of interventions may assist patients to recover clinically in terms of their physical health, but they are not necessarily effective in terms of psychological health [1][2][3] . In particular, the outcome of modern treatments carried out with advanced technologies induce recovery from the disease but do not allow a true restitutio ad integrum, since the recovered health does not restore the initial condition modified by the presence of artificial devices 4 or prostheses 5 into the body. As a result, the individual's subjective response may be a more or less conscious discomfort involving distress, connoted by perturbing disorientation, which might immobilize or lead to impulsive and angry action or rejection 6 .…”

Editorial: Advances in rehabilitation intervention after limb amputation

“…When treating individuals with severe limb trauma, important decisions around limb salvage vs. amputation and optimal amputation level are ideally made through an interdisciplinary approach to optimize both surgical and functional outcomes ( 14 ). The last research article by Khetarpaul et al focuses on the interdisciplinary team approach ( 15 ) as the model system of amputee care.…”

Peer support for traumatic injury survivors: a scoping review

“…Type of Traumatic Injury Participants reported that acceptance of peer support was influenced by when it was introduced, and that optimal timing varies according to the type of traumatic injury incurred [55,62,80,81,83,117]. Participants with SCI reported that the acute stage of injury was too early in their recovery phase [55] and participants with burn injuries reported that their hospital stay was a blur and that burn survivors should be approached after acute care or when they have returned to the community [106].…”