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28. Amputees’ Skills Help Deal with a Pandemic
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
28. Amputees’ Skills Help Deal with a Pandemic Amputees’ skills help deal with a pandemic. The Coronavirus has left people in social isolation. They are housebound, and their movement is restricted. People are panicking because their lives are out of their control. They can no longer go to work and don’t have a clear…
Read More 53. Keeping Your Liner Clean With The Liner Wand
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
Keeping Your Liner Clean With The Liner Wand Keeping your liner clean with the Liner Wand. It is something I needed to learn about being an amputee. When my stump healed I was given my first prosthesis. Along with it came a rubber liner. There were no instructions about how to keep the liner clean…
Read More 52. Augmented not Disabled
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
52. Augmented Not Disabled “Augmented not disabled” are the words of Dr. Hugo Herr, who lost both legs as a teen in a rock-climbing accident, His vascular surgeon asked him what he wanted to do when he got out of the hospital. Hugh said, “go back to rock climbing.” The surgeon didn’t think that was…
Read More 51. Proprio Foot Because the World Isn’t Flat
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
51. Proprio Foot Because the World Isn’t Flat Proprio foot because the world isn’t flat. The new Ossur prosthetic foot changes how you walk. The prosthesis moves with you, flexing as a natural foot would. You have the freedom to look ahead more because you feel more stable. You will find yourself looking people…
Read More 50. Yes, I Want To Be A Cyborg!
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
Yes, I Want To Be A Cyborg! Yes, I Want To Be A Cyborg! Ask an amputee and they will tell you they want something better than a passive prosthesis. They want an ankle that moves on their command and relays the terrain back to their nervous system. After years of lugging around a…
Read More 40. Psychological and Emotional Reaction to Amputation
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
Psychological and Emotional Reaction to Amputation Psychological and emotional reaction to amputation is often ignored. Identifying its absence gives credence to its essential need. Psychological and emotional recovery can be divided into three major areas. While the stump is healing it is time to counteract the loss of muscle strength. There is a reduction in…
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37. You Can Achieve Body Confidence After An Amputation
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
37. You Can Achieve Body Confidence After An Amputation You can achieve bodily confidence after an amputation. An amputation forces you to accept your changed body image. People who see their body image accurately have a better time adjusting to its changed shape. After an amputation one third face severe depression. You must accept the…
Read More 44. Successful Coping Strategies
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
New Amputees Need These Coping Strategies for Limb Loss Successful Coping Strategies Successful Coping Strategies for recent Limb Loss are the focus of this article. Amputation brings an avalanche of feelings enveloping you and threatening your very existence. After the trauma of limb loss, the last thing you want to do is face your feelings.…
Read More 33. Reducing Your Significant Other’s PTSD
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
33. Reducing Your Significant Other’s PTSD Reducing your significant other’s PTSD is often overlooked. . There are many ways to describe the stress and emotional pain that people go through being a caretaker. Physicians call it the caretakers’ syndrome, although it is not a medical disorder. It has other names like post-traumatic stress disorder, caretakers stress disorder,…
Read More 25. Reducing Your Significant Other’s PTSD
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
25. Reducing Your Significant Other’s PTSD Reducing your significant other’s PTSD is often overlooked. . There are many ways to describe the stress and emotional pain that people go through being a caretaker. Physicians call it the caretakers’ syndrome, although it is not a medical disorder. It has other names like post-traumatic stress disorder, caretakers…
Read More 7. Breakthrough In Phantom Limb Pain
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
Breakthrough in Phantom Limb Pain Breakthrough in Phantom Limb Pain started when it was first recorded some 400 years ago by French surgeon Ambroise Paré. At that time, he operated on wounded soldiers, many of whom complained of a mysterious pain in amputated limbs. Despite its long history, phantom limb pain remains poorly understood. There…
Read More 27. How to Find the Best Prosthetist
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
27. How to find the best Prosthetist How to find the best Prosthetist is important because you are going to be under their care…
Read More 11. How to Reduce Amputee Depression
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
11. How to Reduce Amputee Depression This is advice from one amputee to another. How to reduce amputee depression. These are practical tips divided into physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of depression. Here is how to reduce amputee depression. Depression is anger turned inward. Here are some ways to deal with this emotion. You…
Read More 34. Start Enjoying Valentine’s Day
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
34. Start Enjoying Valentine’s Day Start enjoying Valentine’s day by getting the courage to date and reconsidering falling in love is on everyone’s mind. Let’s exclude a dozen roses, chocolates, and a hallmark card crew that have the holiday all covered, or so they think. Being an amputee may make it harder to enjoy…
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38. Ending Cripple Thinking
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
38. Ending Cripple Thinking “One Thing You Can’t Hide Is When You’re Crippled Inside” John Lennon Its time for ending cripple thinking. It has been almost three years since my below-knee amputation. I am looking out for ways that I can lead my life more like a normal person. While I was waiting for…
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5. The Agony of Being Misdiagnosed Bipolar
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
5. The Agony of Being Misdiagnosed Bipolar It is very clear what the agony of being misdiagnosed bipolar after your amputation is. So many amputees have such intense feelings after their amputations that they could be misdiagnosed as manic depression. Current psychiatric research has found that sixty-nine percent of patients are misdiagnosed with Manic Depression…
Read More 20. Make Your Bodily Consciousness Grow a New Leg
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
20. Make Your Bodily Consciousness Grow a New Leg Ask any amputee, and they all will tell you that you can’t grow a new one. Make your Bodily Consciousness grow a new leg is the title of this article. The point of this article is that if you wear your prosthesis long enough, your consciousness…
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22. Top Advancements in Prostheses in 2020
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
22. Top Advancements in Prostheses in 2020 Prostheses have progressed dramatically in recent years, with many people choosing to move away from the standard NHS-provided prostheses, to highly functioning, technologically advanced limbs. Here are the top advancements in prostheses in 2020. With these types of prostheses now available on the market, there’s a wide…
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10. Journaling Improves Amputation Recovery
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
Journaling Improves Amputation Recovery Journaling improves amputation recovery. You don’t know what journaling can do for your amputation till you try it. It puts a progression to your thoughts. You see the change in much more detail. By reflecting on things you wrote in the past, you see how much things have changed. Journaling (or…
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8. Beating Amputation Phantom Pain
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
8. Beating Amputation Phantom Pain Ask any amputee who has tried beating phantom pain. Their goal is beating amputation phantom pain. You know phantom pain when you feel it. It comes from where your limb used to be. The sensation starts as discomfort. It is a real feeling coming from the missing limb. It might…
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17. Unlocking the Secrets of Being an Amputee Spouse
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
Unlocking the Secrets of Being an Amputee Spouse Unlocking the Secrets of Being an Amputee Spouse was a hard book to write because it grew from experiences that were intense feelings. For some time now I have felt a gentle nudge from the universe to write a book about our experience when my husband suffered…
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30. Beware Your Amputation Can Become a Major Depression
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
Beware Your Amputation Can Become a Major Depression Dealing With Your Feelings Many people never see their recovery from their amputation stall. Beware your amputation can become major depression. Getting into an auto accident leaves us no chance to prepare for our amputation. As a result, many amputees have not resolved the emotional loss they…
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1. Amputee Skills Defeat Pandemic Fatigue Syndrome
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
Amputee Skills Defeat Pandemic Fatigue Syndrome Amputee skills defeat pandemic fatigue syndrome, Almost everyone is unusually anxious because of COVID-19. However, being in a constant state of anxiety and stress will not do you any good. After all, stress is known to affect our immune system. So, what should we do? We can try coping with…
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2. Taking Charge of Post-Amputation Depression
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
Taking Charge of Post-Amputation Depression You have a flood of different feelings right after your amputation. Shock and disbelief come when you see part of you missing. You feel frustrated when you realize you have a long recovery ahead of you. At some point, profound sadness and grief overtake you when issues like returning to work…
Read More 21. Fall Prevention Enables You
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
What is Fall Prevention? you ask. Fall Prevention enables You Identifying places and behaviors that can easily result in a loss of balance is called fall prevention. The more you take control of this process, the more confident you feel about returning to your-pre amputation lifestyle. If you haven’t been taught and warned about the…
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3. Seizing Control of Amputation Anxiety
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
3. Seizing Control of Amputation Anxiety What Causes Amputation Anxiety Thirty-five percent of recent amputees suffer from anxiety. Many of them find they are overwhelmed by that fear. However, there are some specific triggers that the newly amputated face that is unique. This empowers you to seize control of amputation anxiety. Feelings of shock, anger,…
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48. Using Your Amputee Skills to Cope with the Pandemic
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
48. Using your Amputee Skills to Cope with the Pandemic Using your amputee skills to cope with the pandemic. You have been in a precautious state long enough to know you are using your amputee skills to cope with the pandemic. These days, we all have to accept the anxiety inherent in living with the…
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Consultation Calendar
By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
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By Kevin Kappler, Ph.D. |
You Can Lead a Happy Life! Let Me Show You How! Yes, You Can! KEVIN KAPPLER, PH.D. AMPUTEE LIFECOACH As a fellow amputee, I know the psychological difficulties people face after losing a limb. I have helped people on the phone and texting for the last ten years as a Life Coach with these…
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By Mystic River |
Amputee.coach HomePost-amputation39. Don’t Have Your Amputation Without Doing This FirstHome RESOURCES COMMON QUESTIONS & CONCERNS What to Expect Once You Face an Amputation If your amputation was like mine no one talked to you about what to expect psychologically. If you start a conversation discussing your psychological apprehension it will briefly be acknowledged but quickly…
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