Year: 2024 | Month: March | Volume: 14 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 57-59
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijhsr.20240310
Crutch Accommodative Transhumeral Prosthesis for an Amputee with PPRP: A Case Report
Ritikesh Pattanaik1, Sipra Lenka2
1Assistant Professor, Department of Prosthetics and Orthotics, KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research (Deemed-to-be-University), Belagavi, Karnataka, India.
2Clinical Prosthetist & Orthotist, Dhruvisha Prosthetic & Orthotic Rehab Centre, Surat, Gujarat, India.
Corresponding Author: Ritikesh Pattanaik
ABSTRACT
Polio affected patients develop lower limb deformities which interfere in ambulation of the patient. The patients become dependent on assistive devices like crutches or orthoses for their ambulation. For ambulation with crutches, the major source is the upper extremities. Amputation of upper extremities leaves no way for ambulation. Though many options are there, patients from low- and middle-income countries cannot afford them and choose not to ambulate rather stay at home. Cost effective modified prosthesis can rehabilitate these patients. A left transhumeral amputee with same side post-polio residual paralysis (PPRP) of lower limb was rehabilitated and made ambulant again by an crutch accommodative prosthesis.
Key words: Polio, Amputation, Accommodative Prosthesis, Ambulation