BILATERAL LOWER LIMB AMPUTATION — AN EXERCISE IN REHABILITATION1 1Received February 1971
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Donald Caine; Helen Dalgleish
- Source
- Australian Journal of Physiotherapy. (2):41-46
- Subject
- Bilateral lower limb amputation
medicine.medical_specialty
Rehabilitation
medicine.medical_treatment
media_common.quotation_subject
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Dignity
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Amputation
Older patients
medicine
Physical therapy
Everyday life
Psychology
media_common
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 0004-9514
There is little need to stress the limitations imposed by functional deficits involving both lower limbs. At best the ability to walk on level surfaces is reduced and the ability to climb up and down is restricted. Older patients may become dependent on help for some of the normal activities of everyday life. Younger patients may be unable to earn a living. For both there is the fundamental loss of dignity associated with personal dependence. For the community there is the economic burden of an ever increasing number of people who are non-productive and require individual assistance. The numbers who are surviving amputation of both lower limbs is increasing, and the problem is therefore acquiring a degree of urgency.