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Role of Prosthetic Technology and Design in Improving Quality of Life of the Amputees and Challenges Ahead

Role of Prosthetic Technology and Design in Improving Quality of Life of the Amputees and Challenges Ahead
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Author(s): Akshay Kumar (Composite Regional Centre for Persons With Disabilities, Kozhikode, India), Vinita (Pace Rehabilitation Research and Artificial Limb Centre, India)and Rajeev Kumar (College of Applied Medical Sciences, Al Majmmah, Saudi Arabia)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 16
Source title: Handbook of Research on Complexities, Management, and Governance in Healthcare
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ubaldo Comite (University “Giustino Fortunato” Benevento, Italy)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6044-3.ch007

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Abstract

Prosthetic devices replace a missing body part lost through disease, trauma, or congenital disorder. The prosthesis is an external physical ‘medicine' that is applied to restore the movement, function, and cosmetic appearance of the lost body parts like a leg, hand, finger, ear, nose, etc. Prosthetists are the healthcare and rehabilitation professionals who assess, examine, prescribe, fabricate, and fit prosthetic devices to the amputees and also train them, if required, in acceptance of the prosthesis to the patient. The person who lost his or her limb through surgery in any form or having absence of limb by birth is known as an amputee. The technological advancement in the field of prosthetics has improved the quality of life of amputees in this century like nothing before and allowed them to interact with the wider world. Prosthesis plays an important role in returning the individual with limb loss to the pre-injury level of function. The future of prosthetic development appears to be promising.

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