Body image and quality of life among individuals with lower limb amputation.

Introduction: Limb Loss is defined as the experience of parting with a limb of the body. Our objective was to find out quality of life in people with lower limb amputation ;according to the study incidence of lower limb amputation.Lower limb is the most mobile part of our body and hence it is important to study how people face their limb loss and their new body image. Methodology: A prospective study conducted on 15 subjects who had undergone lower limb amputation . Participants were given brief idea about the questions in scales I.e. health related quality of life and Amputee Body Inage scale and according to participants response scoring was done of each scale . The study was conducted within 3 weeks. outcome measure was health related quality of life ,amputee image body scale. Result: we found that health related quality of life in people with lower limb amputation is poor as according to score more the score less is the quality of life. in amputee body image scale we found that people have more concern towards their body image Conclusion : Result of the study suggested that person has to face tremendous body changes after amputation also quality of life decreases after amputation .Also the persons have more concern about Body image after amputation.