Acompañamiento terapéutico para la aceptación o rechazo de una prótesis: Caso de paciente infantil con amputación de miembro superior izquierdo

Abstract

The project named “Therapeutic Accompaniment for the Acceptance or Rejection of a Prosthesis: case of a child patient with amputation of the upper limb” is derived from the investigation called Adaptation and Physiotherapeutic Qualification of Handheld Myoelectric Prosthetic Prosthesis, which was a work multidisciplinary and multi-institutional, where construction, design adaptation and habilitation included the areas of manufacturing, electronics, programming and physical therapy. The psychological area was structured transversally to physiotherapeutic adaptation-habilitation in response to the need to identify the factors that were influencing the acceptance or rejection of the use of the prosthesis. The objective of the project was to identify the set of discursive representations that favor the rejection or acceptance of the prosthesis using the techniques of narrative therapy and game therapy through the semi-structured interview. The methodological design is case analysis, which is a type of qualitative and exploratory study. The results obtained from the identification of the representations allowed us to propose an intervention protocol to accompany patients of 4 to 12 years candidates to use a prosthesis.