Diversity in adjustment to a leg amputation: Case illustrations of common themes

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 26, Issue 14-15, 2004, Pages 944-953

  Rybarczyk, Bruce ^a   Edwards, Robert ^b   Behel, Jay ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CASE REPORT; CONFIDENTIALITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GRIEF; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHANTOM PAIN; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGIST; SENSATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTIFICIAL LIMBS; FEMALE; FEMUR; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHANTOM LIMB; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TIBIA; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4143113473     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280410001708986     Document Type: Article

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