Medicine

Kristin Østlie, Ingrid Marie Lesjø, R. J. Franklin, Beate Garfelt, O. Skjeldal, P. Magnus

2012.5.21Disability and Rehabilitation-Assistive Technology

DOI: 10.3109/17483107.2011.635405

tlooto Summary

Clinicians should be aware of the increased risk of rejection in proximal ULAs, elderly ULAs and in women, and improved prosthesis quality and individualised prosthetic training may increase long-term prosthesis use.

Abstract

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Citation format

ØSTLIE, Kristin, et al. Prosthesis rejection in acquired major upper-limb amputees: A population-based survey. Disability and Rehabilitation-Assistive Technology, 2012, 7: 294–303.