Amputees and Paraplegics

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses how losing an arm or a leg is a great loss and how the simplest things that we take for granted become terribly difficult or impossible to do. It looks at some of the challenges facing amputees and paraplegics in their quest to lead a normal life and how the difficulties of rehabilitation can range from learning to use a prosthetic limb to fitting in with the rest of society.

From the Paper:

"The problem of loss of limbs has increased drastically with soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Iraq is a different kind of war where homemade bombs and incendiary devices are exploding unexpectedly all the time. Blasts that would previously have killed them now inflict terrible injuries on the soldiers and frequently include loss of limbs (Aldhous, 2006; and Querna, Brink, et al, 2004). The problem is that amputees want to take up normal lives. In the words of an expression they use, they want to "scare the dog," that is, they want to live full and complete lives (Rader & Valenzano, 2005). The difficulties of rehabilitation range from learning to use a prosthetic limb to fitting in with the rest of society. Many people who are likely to see them as disabled, cripples, and pitiable, which doesn't help a person to feel normal."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Aldhous, P. (2006). Reaching for the next generation of prosthetic arms. New Scientist, (May) 190, 28-29.
• A life without limits (2005). People, (Oct) 64 (15), 88-89.
• On resilience and optimism: Dan Witkowski (2005). Skiing, (Sept) 58 (1), 7.
• Pike, A. C. and Nattress, L. W. (Amputee Resource Foundation of America web site). http://www.amputeeresource.org/Changing%20Role%20of%20the%20Amputee.htm.
• Querna, E., Brink, S., Cannon, A., Shute, N. E., Szegedy-Maszak, M., Gilgoff, D., Hook, C. S. and Jack, J. L. (2004). A long journey home. U. S. News & world Report, 137 (19), 38-39.

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