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Amputee rehabilitation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2008

CPU Stewart*
Affiliation:
Dundee Limb Fitting Centre, Dundee, UK
ME Condie
Affiliation:
National Centre for Training and Education in Prosthetics and Orthotics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
*
Department of Orthopaedic and Traumatic Surgery, Dundee Limb Fitting Centre, 133 Queen Street, Broughty Ferry, Dundee DD5 1AG, UK.

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Rehabilitation
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