The Prosthetic Rehabilitation Of An Amputee With Rett Syndrome And Wrist Disarticulaiton

Abstract

The rehabilitation process becomes very difficult, when a permanent disability as amputation is seen with a syndrome that requires special education as Rett Syndrome (RS). The importance of prosthetic fitting, and difficulties of rehabilitation in a 10 years old boy who underwent wrist disarticulation and having the diagnosis of RS is presented. The child couldn’t be fitted with a prostheses at the age of 4 because of mental retardation and sterotype movements. The patient who received special education for aproximateley 3 years, was given a long rehabilitaton program following passive prosthetic fitting at the age of 7. Firstly, the subject had experienced difficulty in accepting the prostheses and presented agressif behaviours. In time, he became aware of his loss and accepted the prostheses. It was thought that this situtation in terms of showing the success of rehabilitation is important for the child ampute with a severe neurodevelopmental disease as RS.