Group rehabilitation for the vascular-disease amputee.
Group therapy for lower-extremity, vascular-disease amputees was successful in the return of these patients to their normal milieu. Thirty men (mean age, 63 years) were studied during a one-year period. The group meetings progressed from a phase of directed therapy to one of nondirected therapy. This group of hospitalized amputees was chosen specifically because of its social, economic and medical identity. After a self-identified adequate period of therapy, all patients returned to their former places in society.
D000275:Adjustment Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation; D000368:Aged; D000671:Amputation, Surgical / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D000674:Amputees / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D012803:Sick Role; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000601:surgery*