[Exercise training for lower limb amputees]

Ann Readapt Med Phys. 2008 Jan;51(1):50-6. doi: 10.1016/j.annrmp.2007.09.007. Epub 2007 Dec 3.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Lower limb amputee have lower exercise capacities, proportionally to the delay necessary to use their well-fitted prosthesis. Exercise training is a valid therapeutic to improve local factors (residual limb), muscle strength and endurance, locomotor performance and to decrease the cardiovascular risk factors. The programs for exercise training used for amputees are derivate from the vascular diseases and adapted (upper limb ergometer, cycloergometer with intact limb, pharmacological stress). Exercise training must be personalised because the population with lower limb amputation is very heterogeneous for deficiency and capacity (orthopaedic, vascular and cardiac) and for their socioprofessional project.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Amputees / rehabilitation*
  • Exercise*
  • Humans
  • Lower Extremity / physiology*