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Impact of rehabilitation programs on dependency and functional performance of patients with major lower limb amputations

A retrospective chart review in western Saudi Arabia

Mohammad A. AlSofyani, Abdulaziz S. AlHarthi, Fayssal M. Farahat and Wesam T. Abuznadah
Saudi Medical Journal October 2016, 37 (10) 1109-1113; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.10.16033
Mohammad A. AlSofyani
From the College of Medicine (AlSofyani, AlHarthi), Taif University, Taif, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (Farahat, Abuznadah), King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Faculty of Medicine (Farahat), Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
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Abdulaziz S. AlHarthi
From the College of Medicine (AlSofyani, AlHarthi), Taif University, Taif, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (Farahat, Abuznadah), King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Faculty of Medicine (Farahat), Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
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Fayssal M. Farahat
From the College of Medicine (AlSofyani, AlHarthi), Taif University, Taif, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (Farahat, Abuznadah), King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Faculty of Medicine (Farahat), Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
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Wesam T. Abuznadah
From the College of Medicine (AlSofyani, AlHarthi), Taif University, Taif, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (Farahat, Abuznadah), King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Faculty of Medicine (Farahat), Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
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vol. 37 no. 10 1109-1113
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.10.16033
PubMed 
27652362

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received May 31, 2016
  • Accepted July 29, 2016
  • Published online October 1, 2016.

Copyright & Usage 
Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Mohammad A. AlSofyani, MD,
  2. Abdulaziz S. AlHarthi, MD,
  3. Fayssal M. Farahat, MD, PhD⇑ and
  4. Wesam T. Abuznadah, MD, FRCS(C)
  1. From the College of Medicine (AlSofyani, AlHarthi), Taif University, Taif, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (Farahat, Abuznadah), King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the Faculty of Medicine (Farahat), Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Fayssal M. Farahat, Department of Infection Prevention and Control, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: farahatfa{at}ngha.med.sa
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