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Main description:
Psychoprosthetics is defined as the study of psychological aspects of prosthetic use and of rehabilitative processes in those conditions that require the use of prosthetic devices. Psychoprosthetics: State of the Knowledge brings together, into one easily accessible volume, the most recent and exciting research and knowledge in this new field
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.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
Publication date: January, 2008
Pages: 180
Weight: 581g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: General, Orthopaedics and Fractures, Psychotherapy, Rehabilitation
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