STUVIA 2024/2025
Musculoskeletal Conditions
lower limb amputations occur 3 times more likely than upper - ✔✔what is more common, lower limb
amputations or upper limb?
Trauma - ✔✔What is the most common cause of upper limb amputations?
peripheral vascular disease and diabetes - ✔✔What are the most common causes of lower limb
amputations?
pain free and functional - ✔✔The goal of amputation survey is for a visual limb to be ____ ___ and
______
transhumeral - ✔✔amputation above the elbow
transradial - ✔✔amputation below the elbow
transmetacarpal - ✔✔amputation below the wrist
transfemoral - ✔✔amputation above the knee
%
transmetatarsal - ✔✔amputation below the ankle
across the joint such as a hip, wrist, elbow or shoulder - ✔✔disarticulation amputation
Syme's amputation - ✔✔what is an ankle disarticulation called?
delayed healing, necrosis and skin graft adherence to the bone - ✔✔What are skin complications
during the post-operative and preprosthetic phase?
Phantom limb pain - ✔✔Phantom _____ _____ is a sensation that appears to occur in the missing
limb such as stabbing, cramping, burning or throbbing
Phantom sensation - ✔✔____ _____ is the sensation of the limb that is no longer there
residual limb support; anti tippers - ✔✔Wheelchairs for lower limb amputations require ___ ____
____; large rear wheels should be placed further back to counterbalance missing limbs and
wheelchair should have ____
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active prosthesis, cable driven and uses gross proximal body movements - ✔✔body-powered
prosthesis
uses muscle surface electricity to control TD, increased grip force and more natural appearance -
✔✔electrically powered prosthesis
must have two muscle sites - ✔✔electrically powered prosthesis must have how many muscle sites
that fit within prosthesis to provide signal?
combines body-powered and electrically powered - ✔✔hybrid prosthesis
hybrid prosthesis - ✔✔what is the most common prosthesis for transhumeral amputation?
cosmetic, static and does not have grasp - ✔✔passive prosthesis
designed for particular activity or task - ✔✔activity-specific prosthesis
operation of each component of upper limb prosthesis - ✔✔Prosthesis control training includes
%
integration of prosthesis components for efficient assist during functional use - ✔✔prosthesis use
training includes
identifying optimal position of each position unit (wrist, elbow) to perform activity or grasp object -
✔✔prepositioning training includes
TD control during grasp activities - ✔✔prehension training includes
control and use of prosthesis during functional activities (incorporation of TD as functional assist and
focus on problem-solving approach) - ✔✔functional training includes
train client in activity-specific prosthesis - ✔✔adaptive sports and recreation includes
1. superficial and deep heat to increase tissue extensibility
2. slow stretch
3. static splinting
4. serial, progressive static splinting
5. dynamic splinting - ✔✔What are the 5 steps in treatment of contractures?
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