Implications for Rehabilitation
Arm prostheses are important functional aids for adult acquired major upper-limb amputees (ULAs).
Despite being mainly satisfied with their prostheses, reporting their prostheses as useful and showing good prosthetic skills, prosthesis-wearing major ULAs do not use their prostheses for more than about half of the activities of daily life (ADL) tasks carried out in everyday life.
In unilateral ULAs, individualised and targeted prosthetic training may increase optimal, active prosthesis use in ADL.
Fitting the amputee with myoelectric rather than passive prostheses may increase prosthesis use in ADL, regardless of amputation level.