Standards and best practices:
http://theweek.com/articles/445460/new-life-arm
This article is about how someone who lost his left arm feels. He starts off talking about how losing an arm throws your body off balance tremendously and how your mind still believes your arm exists. He talks about how he can still do everything it just takes much longer and at the end of the day he doesn’t get as much done as he wants to, which is aggravating. He mentioned that he still feels pain in his missing arm, which doctors struggle to treat. He also said that losing an arm opened up his perspective to the love and support that he now gets from everyone around him, including other amputees. He believes he suffered a loss but really gained much more. Finally, he mentioned how he started trying to use a prosthetic arm but it is too heavy and battery powered and difficult.
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/nigel-ackland-prosthetics-pioneer-wired-health-2015
This article talks about a man named Nigel Ackland who lost his hand and went through years of emotional struggles and thoughts of suicide until he received the most advanced prosthetic arm in 2012. He mentions how the generic prosthetic hand is not very helpful but how the bebionic3 prosthetic arm changed his life drastically because he could now move individual fingers and feel reconnected to his missing hand. There are a lot of upsides, but he mentions some downsides are that it is really expensive and it has to be charged every night.
http://www.oandplibrary.org/alp/chap11-01.asp
This article talks about a complete overview of upper limb prosthetics. It starts off talking about training and therapy and how to heal properly as well as deal with phantom pain. There is a lot of information about the therapy program. This article then gets into what prosthetic is right for you based on your needs. Then it gets into training with your prosthetic and when to wear it. Finally, it gets into daily use and best practices for things such as cutting food, getting dressed, and washing dishes.