By Pamela Gallagher, Deirdre Desmond, Malcolm Maclachlan
Psychoprosthetics is the research of the mental facets of prosthetic use and of rehabilitative methods in these stipulations that require using prosthetic units. for individuals with limb loss, the correct of a prosthesis can provide upward push to quite a few concerns from useful rehabilitation to caliber of existence, healthiness, participation in society and beauty delight. As prosthetic know-how maintains to develop into extra refined and complex, there's an onus on those that paintings with prosthetic clients, to concentrate on the influence of prosthetics at the ways that humans comprehend and build their realities and their makes an attempt to deal with and relate to them. notwithstanding, regardless of the vast and extending curiosity in psychosocial features of prosthetic use and rehabilitation, thus far there has no longer been an entire quantity at the subject – this e-book now addresses that need.
Psychoprosthetics brings jointly the newest and intriguing examine and information during this new box into one simply available quantity. It contributes to a greater knowing of the advanced human dynamics concerned about prosthetic use and gives an research of the perform, examine and thought within the box of psychoprosthetics.
Written through many of the prime specialists to the sector, this informative and state of the art textual content should be of relevance to scholars, practitioners and researchers from a variety of disciplines, together with prosthetics and orthotics, occupational treatment, physiotherapy, rehabilitation medication, engineering, nursing and psychology.
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All of the contextual factors play a crucial role in shaping an individual’s response, diminishing the impact of limb loss for some and magnifying it for others. Furthermore, clinical examples of incongruous responses are not difficult to find. A transmetatarsal amputation may be psychically magnified to disfiguring proportions, while others may experience the loss of an entire limb as a relatively unimportant cosmetic change relative to the life-threatening medical conditions that necessitated the amputation.
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A transmetatarsal amputation may be psychically magnified to disfiguring proportions, while others may experience the loss of an entire limb as a relatively unimportant cosmetic change relative to the life-threatening medical conditions that necessitated the amputation. Individuals’ internal representations of their appearance tend to attach different cognitiveaffective values to different parts of the body. For some women, for example, the body image threat of an amputation is heightened by the fact that wearing skirts that expose the leg or wearing fashionable high-heeled shoes has been an important part of their identity.