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Article: Psychological Adjustment and Coping in Adults With Prosthetic Limbs.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Behavioral Medicine
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
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The fitting of a prosthetic limb confronts patients with the irrevocable fact that they have lost a limb, must now adjust to wearing a prosthesis, and must learn to be proficient in its use. Thus, amputees have to make permanent behavioral, social, and emotional adjustments to cope with the multiple problems engendered by amputation. However, although people with physical disabilities as a group have been found to be at risk for psychological and social adjustment problems,[1] relatively little attention has been paid to amputees as a specific subgroup of disabled persons in terms of describing their adjustment to physical illness and disability and to the specific factors ...