Treatment in Upper and lower limb Malformation or Amputation (TUMA)
About this team
Team information
Our research investigates consequences of the health condition among individuals with limb deficiency or amputation. Our focus is on how treatments such as surgery, training of function and activity performance, treatment of phantom limb pain, prostheses and other assistive technology devices, and environmental adaptations, enable an active and independent life.
The research also covers prevention of over-use and pain in upper limb amputees, and prevention of amputation in people with diabetes.
In order to measure correctly the effect of treatments, we need instruments of good psychometric quality. Thus, we also develop and validate questionnaires and observational-based tests.
Our research is carried out in collaboration with researchers from Sweden, Europe, North America, Africa and Asia.
Contact person for the research group is also affiliated professor Liselotte Hermansson, who can be contacted at
Research projects
Active projects
- Sealed Therapeutic shoes - a qualitative analysis of user experiences
- A sealed therapeutic shoe or cast as treatment of diabetic foot ulcers - a randomized controlled trial
- Assessment of Capacity for Myoelectric Control (ACMC)
- Assessment of difficulties in everyday life - validation of the Swedish self-administered version of World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 in a psychiatric population
- Benefit and use of myoelectric prosthesis
- Boosting resource efficiency and circular industry by additive manufacturing (BRECIAM)
- Congenital limb deficiency - early intervention and later outcomes
- Development of the Assisting Hand Assessment-PAD: A Rasch-built performance measure for people with unilateral upper limb prosthesis (P), amputation (A) or reduction deficiency (D)
- Lower extremity amputations in Sweden
- Psychometric properties of two assessment tools for use in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy - Childrens Hand-use Experience Questionnaire and the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory
- Risk och protective factors for adherence to wearing therapeutic shoes among people with diabetic foot complications
- Silicone sock as treatment of heel fissures among people with diabetes - a randomized controlled trial
- Translation and validation of the Swedish version of the World Health Organization - Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0
- Validation of the self-report version of IPPA (Individually Prioritized Problem Assessment)
Research funding bodies
- National Health Care Science Postgraduate School
- The Swedish Foundation Frimurare Barnhuset i Stockholm
- The Promobilia foundation
- University Health Care Research Center, Region Örebro County
