[The rehabilitation of wounded patients with limb stumps]

The article is based on the experience of the Regional Military Hospital in treatment of 165 patients with extremity stumps as a result of gunshot injuries. All the patients had various stump diseases. In the course of rehabilitation process physical and psychological training was applied to accustom the patients to prosthetic appliances, and to prepare the stump for prosthesis. A special attention was paid to the treatment of purulent complications and to training in prosthetics.