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Amputation, Prosthesis Use, and Phantom Limb Pain

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

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Editors:
  1. Craig Murray

    1. Dept. Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

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  • One of the view available books that cover amputation, prosthesis use, and phantom limb pain together, as the intricately related topics that they are

  • Offers a broad appeal to a varied readership through innovative exploration of the entire process surrounding limb loss and eventual recovery

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Developing an Interdisciplinary Perspective on Amputation, Prosthesis Use, and Phantom Limb Pain: An Introduction

    • Craig D. Murray
    Pages 1-5

  3. Need-Directed Design of Prostheses and Enabling Resources

    • Elaine Biddiss
    Pages 7-21

  4. Ethical and Medico-Legal Issues in Amputee Prosthetic Rehabilitation

    • Jai Kulkarni
    Pages 23-31

  5. Monitoring of Upper Limb Prosthesis Activity in Trans-Radial Amputees

    • Mohammad Sobuh, Laurence Kenney, Phil Tresadern, Martin Twiste, Sibylle Thies
    Pages 33-63

  6. Adaptation to Amputation and Prosthesis Use

    • Elisabeth Schaffalitzky, Pamela Gallagher, Deirdre Desmond, Malcolm MacLachlan
    Pages 65-79

  7. Understanding Adjustment and Coping to Limb Loss and Absence through Phenomenologies of Prosthesis Use

    • Craig D. Murray
    Pages 81-99

  8. Return to Work After Amputation

    • Helena Burger
    Pages 101-114

  9. Gender, Sexuality and Prosthesis Use: Implications for Rehabilitation

    • Craig D. Murray
    Pages 115-127

  10. Post Amputation Chronic Pain Profile and Management

    • Jai Kulkarni, Kate Grady
    Pages 129-136

  11. Phantom Limb Pain; Prevalence, Mechanisms and Associated Factors

    • Cliff Richardson
    Pages 137-156

  12. Management of Phantom Limb Pain

    • Kate MacIver, Donna Lloyd
    Pages 157-173

  13. Virtual Solutions to Phantom Problems: Using Immersive Virtual Reality to Treat Phantom Limb Pain

    • Craig D. Murray, Stephen Pettifer, Toby Howard, Emma Patchick, Fabrice Caillette, Joanne Murray
    Pages 175-196

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 197-203
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About this book

The main objective in the rehabilitation of people following amputation is to restore or improve their functioning, which includes their return to work. Full-time employment leads to beneficial health effects and being healthy leads to increased chances of full-time employment (Ross and Mirowskay 1995). Employment of disabled people enhances their self-esteem and reduces social isolation (Dougherty 1999). The importance of returning to work for people following amputation the- fore has to be considered. Perhaps the first article about reemployment and problems people may have at work after amputation was published in 1955 (Boynton 1955). In later years, there have been sporadic studies on this topic. Greater interest and more studies about returning to work and problems people have at work following amputation arose in the 1990s and has continued in recent years (Burger and Marinc ?ek 2007). These studies were conducted in different countries on all the five continents, the greatest number being carried out in Europe, mainly in the Netherlands and the UK (Burger and Marinc ?ek 2007). Owing to the different functions of our lower and upper limbs, people with lower limb amputations have different activity limitations and participation restrictions compared to people with upper limb amputations. Both have problems with driving and carrying objects. People with lower limb amputations also have problems standing, walking, running, kicking, turning and stamping, whereas people with upper limb amputations have problems grasping, lifting, pushing, pulling, writing, typing, and pounding (Giridhar et al. 2001).

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“The book consists of 12 chapters divided into 3 main sections that outline the multidisciplinary developments in the understanding and treatment of phantom limb pain. Each chapter is well written and provides references to key sources in the field. … This book is written for a variety of professionals and draws attention to the increased need for additional research in the area of phantom limb pain. The book has accomplished its goal of updating current understanding and identifying optimal, multidisciplinary treatments of phantom limb pain.” (Brian M. Kelly, Journal of the American Medical Association, December, 2010)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

    Craig Murray

About the editor

Craig Murray is a Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University with research specialization in health, clinical psychology, and embodiment. He has more than 100 journal, book, and conference publications. These include papers in key Health Psychology (British Journal of Health Psychology; Health Informatics; Health Psychology; Health, Risk and Society; Qualitative Health Research, Psychology, Health and Medicine; Social Science and Medicine) Mental Health (Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease; Journal of Mental Health) and Rehabilitation (CyberPsychology and Behavior; Disability and Rehabilitation; International Journal on Disability and Human Development) journal titles. He has published widely on the topic of amputation, prosthesis use and phantom limb pain and led funded research programmes on these topics. This work has received international media attention (including television: Canadian Discovery Channel, Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio and television, and America’s CNN; and press: e.g. The Times, Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald, China’s People Daily, Russian Newsweek, New Yorker magazine). He is editor of ‘Psychological Scientific Perspectives on out-of-body experiences’ (2009, Nova Science Publishers, New York).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Amputation, Prosthesis Use, and Phantom Limb Pain

  • Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

  • Editors: Craig Murray

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87462-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-87461-6Published: 14 December 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-87463-0Due: 02 September 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-87462-3Published: 27 November 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 203

  • Topics: Surgery, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering, Rehabilitation Medicine, Health Psychology, Nursing

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