Amputation: recovery after surgery

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  • Care and prosthesis

  • Of course, in any circumstances, the doctor does everything possible for,
    To save damaged hand or leg. But there are situations
    Critical when amputation can save life or save big
    Part of the limb. After the operation, blood and lymph circulation is disturbed in
    truncated limb, partially atrophy its subcutaneous fat and
    Muscle fabric. But the body gradually adapts to these
    Changes, and is formed, in fact, a new organ - cult. If for
    It is properly to care for, make a massage and gymnastics, then the crust is soon
    Went all the functions of it and you can use
    Prosthesis.



    Care and prosthesis

    First of all, returning home, take over the first day
    Rule twice a day during the morning and evening toilet wash
    a cult with warm water with soap, especially carefully - scars and skin
    folds and then wipe dry with a clean towel.

    In the first days after healing the wound to warn the appearance of the swelling, start making a massage.
    Masseling a cult need 5-10 minutes a day.

    Massage start from the end of the cult in the distance from the bottom up.
    Performing this procedure, palm stroke the cult, and before the massage
    Plush the skin with a talc so as not to graze it.

    NSMassage Riema:

    • Stroking the skin with trees with fingers or palm,
    • Rubbing (shifting) of the skin and tissues with circular motions,
    • Muscle kneading - Easy pulling and squeezing them,
    • Final Picking Laptop Palm or Brush Edge,
    • Vibration - fingers grab the cult and shake.

    So after the operation, the muscles of the cult can atrophy. To this
    It did not happen, to maintain the muscular tone daily twice a day
    5-7 minutes pay fantom and impulsive gymnastics. Is not
    At all ordinary gymnastics. She lies in the fact that you mentally
    bend and extension the missing joint, and the muscles are alternately
    then strain, then relax.

    After bone-plastic amputations, when it was possible to keep the joint,
    You need to bend and blend a truncated limb. Exercises
    perform sitting or lying without excessive effort, they should not cause
    pain.

    Now exercise for patients with hip crops, useful to everyone,
    Regardless of whether the limb is removed due to obliterators
    Enermeritis or injury. It will help to start walking faster with prosthesis,
    Based on the cult. Sit on a chair, put a piece of foam rubber under the cult
    And press it on it, but not to pain, for 1-2 minutes. Gradually,
    From day to day, increase the pressure until you can
    Stand painlessly, drawing on the cult. But sick oblumbrant
    Enermeritis, whose pain does not pass for a long time, recall: in
    Only the attending physician will help you with each specific situation.

    Amputation: recovery after surgerySimultaneously with massage and gymnastics, temper the operated limb.
    When there is an opportunity, try to remove the prosthesis. Very helpful
    Air and sunbathing. For the first five days to substitute the cult
    Sunny rays no more than one minute. And then every day
    Adjust one minute and bring the duration of the procedure to
    quarter of an hour.

    During the first two months after discharge from the hospital, twice in
    Day Ten Minutes Make Contrast Baths. One minute
    Keep the cult in the cold - not lower than 20-25 degrees Celsius and warm -
    Not higher than 45-50 degrees Celsius - Water.

    In order for the skin of the cult of the cult and become more hardy,
    Daily after the morning toilet rubbing her decoction of oak bark.
    This is especially useful in summer, on hot days when sweating increases and
    Difference may appear. If you see on the skin of the Gnove,
    Lubricate them with 1% diamond greenery solution.

    Habit hold a cult on a pillow and sleep on a soft bed leads to
    restriction of mobility in the joint, the development of contractures. To this not
    happened, put under the mattress wooden shield.

    The size of the cult, in particular the diameter of its truncated surface,
    formed not immediately after the operation, but only when atrophy
    subcutaneous fat fiber. Many patients want to speed up this process
    and tightly binting her elastic bandage. But I do not advise this to do.
    Because of the tight binting, blood circulation is disturbed and not atrophically
    only subcutaneous fatty fiber, but also muscles. For the formation of cult
    Use special plaster or plastic receiving sleeve
    a kind of temporary prosthesis, which can be made by your
    request at any prosthetic and orthopedic enterprise.

    If you enjoy the receiving sleeve, the skin of the cult gradually
    Immerses, pain will pass. And in a year stabilize the size of the cult.
    But it is necessary to do prosthetics not later than two or three months from
    amputation. To do this, contact the prosthetic and orthop
    Your city, there you will make a prosthesis for free. Postpone
    It is impossible to the procedure, since the long-term immobility in the joints
    The limbs develop contractures.

    The size of the cult may change when you already use
    Prosthesis. If he, let's say, will decrease, it is necessary to limb under the prosthesis
    Wear an extra case. These covers are attached to the prosthesis. If
    the perimeter of the cult will increase so much that the limb to the prosthesis is not
    It is placed, or, on the contrary, it will decrease so that an additional case is not
    Helps, immediately refer to the prosthetic and orthopedic enterprise,
    where you will have the necessary help, make a new prosthesis. Very important,
    so at that time when you learn to use them
    Controlled the surgeon who has made an operation. It is necessary in order to
    Incorrect movements were not in the habit.

    Behind the prosthesis, as well as for the Cults, you need to take care.
    Capron and cotton-
    Paper covers conform clean, erase them every other day. Protane itself
    should always be dry. Leather and suede items once in
    Wipe gasoline, alcohol or cologne. If these conditions are not
    Complied, diarming, ulcers, scuffs may appear. Two times
    Wipe the week
    Prosthetic inside and outside with a rag moistened in soapy water.

    Once a year be sure to attend the district surgeon once. He will
    monitor how the cult is adapted to new functions and not
    whether there are any changes that require special
    Treatment.

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