Children amputation is a very sad thing, because children are young, physical and mental development is not yet mature, the installation of artificial limbs reduces the obstruction level to physical and mental development. Therefore, the installation of children prosthesis should be exceptionally careful.
Today MEDI-REHATEK will talk about what will matter when the assembly of children prosthesis.
1.Upper limb amputation of children
Especially double upper limb amputation, and children should early wear hooked prosthetic hand to have self-rehabilitation and learning ability. Or the children will not only have stunted growth, and will but also have poor intellectual development.
2.Lower limb amputation of children
During prosthesis assembly and application, we must consider the developmental results: the development of the residual limb is slower than the healthy limb. The proper length of the prosthesis will be a lot shorter in six months or a year later.So we need to choose the prosthesis with structure who can be facilitated the transformation of the length.We can make the prosthesis longer.Put the foot pad on the healthy limb and make it temporarily higher, in the future we can removed the pad after the healthy leg increases the length.
3.3. Below-knee amputation of children
We should pay attention to its residual limb bone whose development is faster than the residual limb skin.Sometimes the bone breaks the skin, the external bone develops faster than the internal bone on the stump, which is more likely to cause the projection skin damage or piercing .In case of the situation, children should push or pull the residual limb skin to make the skin become longer and loose.It postpones the time of re-amputation surgery.We also pay attention correct alignment on the device.
Relative blog: Maintenance of upper limb prostheses
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