Life Care Planning for the Amputee – Prosthetic Prescription (II)

Also, aging with a disability research has shown the onset of additional disabling changes in body systems within 20 to 30 years from the onset of the initial disability. In the amputee, issues of overuse and biomechanical stress and strain do occur over years of altered biomechan­ics. Often, changes are seen in the extremity opposite to the amputated one and also in the more proximal body segments, which take additional stress and strain to compensate for the amputation.