Cold injury amputees-A psychosocial problem?

Cold Injury

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Cold Injury

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Nonfreezing Cold Injury

Psychosocial recovery after serious injury

BACKGROUND The 2010 iteration of the Global Burden of Disease statistics (Murray et al., 2012) points to the growing impact of injury and highlights the mounting burden of psychiatric disorder. It is essential to examine the intersection between these two contributors to disease burden. METHODS The Australian Injury Vulnerability Study collected data of over 1,000 injury patients from their i...

A survey of lower-limb amputees: prostheses, phantom sensations, and psychosocial aspects.

Periodic evaluation of accumulated data allows not only for the detection of trends, but also for the constant monitoring of quality control of amputee service . Research in prosthetic design is always continuing . Modifications of prostheses to give greater functional ability and improved cosmesis, as well as provisions for recreational prostheses, are often mentioned in the literature . But i...