CONSIDERATION OF INDIVIDUAL FUNCTIONAL LEVEL AND HEALTH STATUS OF WAR RELATED ABOVE KNEE AMPUTEES

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MASOUMI MEHDI; ESFANDIARI ELHAM; YAVARI AMIR; SAEEDI HASSAN; ALLAMI MOSTAFA

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Journal: Iranian Journal of War and Public Health Year:2011 | Volume:3 | Issue:10 Page(s): 18-23

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CONSIDERATION OF INDIVIDUAL FUNCTIONAL LEVEL AND HEALTH STATUS OF WAR RELATED ABOVE KNEE AMPUTEES

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LOWER LIMB AMPUTATIONQ3

FUNCTIONAL LEVELQ2

HEALTH STATUSQ2

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Background and Purpose: There are two main goals in amputated persons: Enabling the person to walk, returning them into social environment. Adjusting to life with a prosthesis and other mobility technologies is a complex rehabilitation process. Unfortunately there is no information about individual FUNCTIONAL LEVEL and HEALTH STATUS for persons with limb loss to identify importance for rehabilitation programs. Purpose: consideration of individual FUNCTIONAL LEVEL and HEALTH STATUS in war related above knee amputees.Material and methods: For this study, 54 Iranian above knee amputees were examined according to 5-level functional classification system and asked to report their HEALTH STATUS. Results: Pain or countralateral limb arthritis was reported in 77.77%, back pain in 74.07%, mental disorders in 55.55% of patients. 7.41% of patients were in level 1, 25.92%of patients were in level 2, 57.41% of patients were in level 3 and 9.26% were in level 4. Conclusion: according to this study, the most prevalent disorders were pain or countralateral limb arthritis, back pain and mental disorders. Also more than half of the amputees were in FUNCTIONAL LEVEL 3 that the person has the ability or potential for ambulation with variable cadence.

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MASOUMI, MEHDI, ESFANDIARI, ELHAM, YAVARI, AMIR, SAEEDI, HASSAN, & ALLAMI, MOSTAFA. (2011). CONSIDERATION OF INDIVIDUAL FUNCTIONAL LEVEL AND HEALTH STATUS OF WAR RELATED ABOVE KNEE AMPUTEES. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF WAR AND PUBLIC HEALTH (TEBE-E-JANBAZ), 3(10), 18-23. SID. https://sid.ir/paper/152377/en

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MASOUMI MEHDI, ESFANDIARI ELHAM, YAVARI AMIR, SAEEDI HASSAN, ALLAMI MOSTAFA. CONSIDERATION OF INDIVIDUAL FUNCTIONAL LEVEL AND HEALTH STATUS OF WAR RELATED ABOVE KNEE AMPUTEES. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF WAR AND PUBLIC HEALTH (TEBE-E-JANBAZ)[Internet]. 2011;3(10):18-23. Available from: https://sid.ir/paper/152377/en

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MEHDI MASOUMI, ELHAM ESFANDIARI, AMIR YAVARI, HASSAN SAEEDI, and MOSTAFA ALLAMI, “CONSIDERATION OF INDIVIDUAL FUNCTIONAL LEVEL AND HEALTH STATUS OF WAR RELATED ABOVE KNEE AMPUTEES,” IRANIAN JOURNAL OF WAR AND PUBLIC HEALTH (TEBE-E-JANBAZ), vol. 3, no. 10, pp. 18–23, 2011, [Online]. Available: https://sid.ir/paper/152377/en

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