Publications by authors named "Tryphon Kelaridis"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates long-term sports activity levels and feasible types of sports for patients who have undergone lower extremity amputation due to malignant tumors, focusing on how well they can engage in moderate sports over time.
- The researchers conducted a retrospective survey of 21 former patients, gathering data on their sports participation, demographic information, and medical history, with an average follow-up of over 41 years.
- Results showed that only 33% of participants continued to engage in moderate sports activities years after their amputation, indicating challenges in maintaining physical activity post-surgery.
Background: After major lower limb amputation, persistent pain is common, with up to 85% of patients reporting recurring phantom or residual-limb pain. Although pain management is an important factor of quality of life in patients with lower limb amputations, there are few long-term data regarding the frequency of persistent pain and how it impacts prosthesis use.
Questions/purposes: (1) How prevalent are different types of pain at long-term follow-up after amputation for malignant tumors? (2) What association do different pain types have with daily prosthesis use?
Methods: Between 1961 and 1995, 124 major amputations for malignant tumors were performed at one center in Austria in patients (1) who spoke German and (2) whose surgical date resulted in the possibility of a minimum follow-up time of 20 years at the time of this survey; those patients were considered potentially eligible for this retrospective study.