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AMPUTATION
Nishitha Elsy Fernandes
Assistant professor- Nipt
CONTENTS
•DEFINITION
•INDICATIONS
•IDEAL LEVEL
•TYPES
•TECHNIQUE
•COMPLICATIONS
•INDIVIDUAL AMPUTATIONS
PROSTHESIS
DEFINITION
•Amputation is the
removal of a body
extremity by trauma
or surgery.
INDICATIONS
Dead limb
•Gangrene
Deadly limb
•Wet gangrene
•Spreading Cellulitis
•AV fistula
•Malignancy
Dead loss
•Severe rest pain
•Paralysis
•Contracture
•Trauma
IDEAL STUMP SHOULD-
•HEAL ADEQUATELY
•ADEQUATE BLOOD SUPPLY
•ADEQUATE ADJACENT JOINT MOVEMENT
•THIN SCAR WHICH DOES NOT INTERFERE WITH
PROSTHETIC FUNCTION
•ROUNDED EDGE WITH ADEQUATE MUSCLE PADDING
•SUFFICIENT LENGTH TO BEAR A PROSTHESIS
TYPES
•GUILLOTINE TYPE
•FLAP METHOD
•Circular flap
•Elliptical/ Oval flap
•Racquet method
•Semicircular/ Rectangular method
COMPLICATIONS
Early
1.HEMORRHAGE
2.INFECTION
3.DVT & PULMONARY EMBOLISM
4.GAS GANGRENE
COMPLICATIONS
1.ADHERENT & PAINFUL SCAR
2.STUMP NEUROMA
3.PHANTOM LIMB
4.PAINFUL PHANTOM
5.SKIN FLAP NECROSIS
6.INFECTION OSTEITIS, SEQUESTRUM, SINUS
7.CAUSALGIA
8.FLEXION CONTRACTURE
9.JACTITATION
10.ULCERATION OF STUMP
LEVELS OF AMPUTATION
● Partial toe
● Toe disarticulation
● Partial foot/ ray resection
● Transmetatarsal
● Ankle disarticulation/ syme’s
● Long transtibial
● Transtibial
● Short transtibial
● Knee disarticulation
● Long transfemoral
● Transfemoral
● Short transfemoral
● Hip disarticulation
● Hemipelvectomy
● Hemicorporectomy
POST OPERATIVE
HEALING-
POST SURGICAL DRESSINGS-
•Rigid dressing,
• Semi rigid dressing(unna’s dressing) ,
•Soft dressing-
❖ ELASTIC WRAPS-4 INCH WIDE OR MORE, OVER GAUGE AND DRESSING THE ELASTIC
WRAPS ARE USED TO MAINTAIN COMPRESSION
❖ ELASTIC SHRINKERS
physiotherapy
POSTSURGICAL PHASE
PRE- PROSTHETIC PHASE
POST OPPETIVE
REHABILITATION
•ACUTE PHASE OR POSTSURGICAL
oPatient education
oStump care- (RESIDUAL LIMB )dressing and promotion of
healing, vascularity, wound health.
oSystemic conditions
oPositioning – elevation and positions to promote drainage
•ACUTE PHASE OR POSTSURGICAL
O Mobility
O Balance and transfer
O Maintenance of available range- of Active range of motion
– residual limb care.
O Chest physiotherapy – maintainance
O Maintenance of the unaffected part of the body
POSITIONS
PROSTHETIC PHASE
EXAMINATION
● RESIDUAL LIMB
● RANGE OF MOTION
● MUSCLE STRENGTH
● STATUS OF UNINVOLVED LIMB
● FUNCTIONAL STATUS
● PHANTOM LIMB
● EMOTIONAL STATUS
● PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT
INTERVENTION
INTERVENTION
LIMB CARE- WRAPPING - BANDAGING - TRANSTIBIAL+ TRANSFEMORAL
SHRINKERS
SKIN CARE
ACTIVE RANGE OF MOTION
EXERCISE
BALANCE AND MOBILITY
EXERCISES
BALANCE TRAINING
STATIC BALANCE
DYNAMIC BALANCE
USE OF PROSTHESIS
It is an artificial part and replacement of the
lost part of the body
It is the substitution to a part of the body to
achieve its optimum function
Eg; •Syme’s Amputation: Elephant boot ,Canadian Syme’s prosthesis, B-K Amputation: Patellar
tendon bearing (PTB) prosthesis Solid ankle cushion heel(SACH), Above Knee Amputation: Suction
type & Non suction type prosthesis,Hind quarter Amputation: Tilting table prosthesis(TTP) Canadian
prosthesis
Prosthetic training
STABILITY
KNEE CONTROL
STABILITY ON PROSTHESIS
PROSTHETIC CONTROL
PROPRIOCEPTION
PELVIC CONTROL
STEPPING WITH PROSTHESIS
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