Amputation can bring what influence to the amputee body?

2018 / 02 / 05

Effect of amputation brought amputee body can be branch section and systemic: 1, local: after amputation residual limb called stump. The stump of the skin, blood vessels, due to the truncation of skeletal muscle and nerve, and may appear in some assembly, using prosthetic problems. The common probl

Effect of amputation brought amputee body can be branch section and systemic:

1, local: after amputation residual limb called stump. The stump of the skin, blood vessels, due to the truncation of skeletal muscle and nerve, and may appear in some assembly, using prosthetic problems. The common problems are:

The stump swelling: This is caused by the blood and lymph circulation disorders after amputation.

Some parts of the stump tenderness: pain in the severed nerve stump site.

The residual limb flexion deformity of joints (joint can not be straightened): occurs in the lower extremity amputation, such as thigh amputation after hip joint can not be extended after, not after the knee adduction; leg amputation is not straight. These are caused by the unbalance of the muscles and the internal and external muscles after the muscle truncation of the part of the limb.

2, systemic influence

The amount of exercise of patients after amputation suddenly reduced, often causing a rapid increase in body weight, especially in female patients with stump excessive subcutaneous fat and weight will seriously affect the use of artificial limb.

(2) systemic muscle strength decreased and physical strength weakened.