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Amputations and Prostheses

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The Human Foot

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An individual’s response to partial or total loss of a limb depends, to some extent, on the age when it occurs. Children adapt rapidly but most adults stoically accept the situation and make the best of it. Those who are liberated from chronic pain are only too pleased to become mobile again. As stated by a psychiatrist, James Parkes [1],

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  1. The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    Leslie Klenerman MBBCh, ChM, FRCS (Emeritus Professor of Orthopaedic and Accident Surgery)

  2. Center for the Advance Study of Hominid Paleobiology, Department of Anthropology, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA

    Bernard Wood MBBS, PhD, DSc

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Klenerman, L., Wood, B. (2006). Amputations and Prostheses. In: The Human Foot. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-032-X_7

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