Rehabilitation of a Lower Limb Amputee

Abstract

The rehabilitation of the amputee patient must be early and therfore begins immediately after the operation. In the pre-prosthetic phase, the first objective is to allow good healing and a reduction of the edema of the stump with trophic and circulatory massages ; in a second step it is a question of obtaining a toned stump by exercises of reinforcemnt and joint mobilization. In the post-prothetic phase, the aim is to integrate the prosthesis into the patient’s body diagram and to correct the gait pattern with the ultimate objective of greater patient autonomy.