Psychoprosthetics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gallagher, Pamela (Editor), Desmond, Deirdre (Editor), MacLachlan, Malcolm (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2008.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Orthopedics.; Psychotherapy.; Rehabilitation.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Orthopedics.

Psychoprosthetics is the study of the psychological aspects of prosthetic use and of rehabilitative processes in those conditions that require the use of prosthetic devices. For people with limb loss, the fitting of a prosthesis can give rise to a variety of issues from functional rehabilitation to...

Table of Contents:

• Psychoprosthetics: An Introduction
• Coping and Psychosocial Adjustment to Amputation
• Limb Loss and Body Image
• Management of Chronic Pain After Limb Loss
• Cognition and Mobility Rehabilitation Following Lower Limb Amputation
• Psychological Adjustment to Lower Limb Amputation: An Evaluation of Outcome Measurement Tools
• Interventions for Psychological Issues in Amputation: A Team Approach
• Anthropology and Its Individual, Social, and Cultural Contributions to Psychoprosthetics
• Embodiment and Prosthetics
• Osseoperception and Osseointegrated Prosthetic Limbs
• Virtual and Augmented Reality, Phantom Experience, and Prosthetics
• Psychological Fit of a Prosthetic Arm: An Illustrative Case Study Using Repertory Grid Analysis with a User of a High-Tech Upper Limb Prosthesis.