Amputee Care
Amputee Coalition - Learn about amputation & prosthetic care ...
The Amputee Coalition is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for amputees and their families, improving patient care and preventing limb loss.
Amputation: Recovery and Rehabilitation | Johns Hopkins Medicine
Try to get regular sleep, maintain a routine and eat healthy foods, and try some relaxation techniques such as meditation or mindfulness. Most important, make ...
An amputation is the surgical removal of part of the body, such as an arm or leg. This topic may be helpful if you, a friend, or a member of your family, ...
Below-the-Knee Leg Amputation: What to Expect at Home
Remaining limb care · Check your remaining limb daily for irritation, skin breaks, and redness. Tell your doctor about any problems you see. · Wash your remaining ...
Amputation System of Care (ASoC) - Rehabilitation and Prosthetic ...
The VA Amputation System of Care collaborates with the Amputee Coalition in training Veterans living w/ limb loss to become Certified Peer ...
Penn's amputation specialty program offers treatment plans to maximize independence and restore physical functioning.
Rehabilitation After Amputation | Stanford Health Care
Rehabilitation after amputation · Treatments to help improve wound healing and stump care · Activities to help improve motor skills, restore activities of daily ...
Amputation | Johns Hopkins Medicine
Amputation is the loss or removal of a body part such as a finger, toe, hand, foot, arm or leg. It can be a life changing experience.
Practical coping strategies to help amputees and their families
Amputees have found that maintaining a positive/optimistic attitude can help with coping. “Put things into perspective” and reminders of one's achievements ( ...
Amputation | University of Michigan Health
Michigan Medicine offers complete, compassionate amputation care, taking you from the amputation process to getting you back to daily living by listening to ...
Standard of Care: Lower Extremity Amputation
See Treatment section below for specific guidelines. IV. Pre-prosthetic – Involves residual limb shaping, stump shrinking, skin care, increasing ...
Leg amputation - discharge Information | Mount Sinai - New York
This article gives you information on what to expect and how to care for yourself during your recovery.
Kessler Institute provides amputees with the individualized care that advances his/her physical recovery and helps overcome the many emotional, psychological ...
Amputation: What It Is, Types, Risks & Recovery - Cleveland Clinic
Amputation is surgery to remove all or part of a body appendage, usually a limb or extremity (an arm, leg, hand or foot). You might need surgery to amputate a ...
Amputation Care SIG Information - APTA Federal
The mission of the Amputation Care Special Interest Group is to provide members of the Federal Physical Therapy and other Sections the opportunity to network ...
Health Services - Specialty Care - Amputee Care
A state-of-the-art facility where service members, retirees and family members use sophisticated prosthetics and cutting-edge athletic equipment to move from ...
Interdisciplinary Care for Amputees Network (ICAN)
The Mass General Interdisciplinary Care for Amputees Network (ICAN) is a collaboration conceived by orthopaedic surgeons, plastic surgeons and ...
Amputee Rehabilitation | Atrium Health
Atrium Health Carolinas Rehabilitation helps patients who have experienced amputations live active and independent lives. See how we can help you.
Amputee Rehabilitation | MedStar Health
We offer a dedicated Amputee Rehabilitation program, helping patients facing or living with amputation due to diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, or a ...
Amputee & Limb Loss Rehabilitation - Memorial Hermann
Learning the skills necessary to achieve maximum independence without a prosthesis. What Is Prosthetic Training? The treatment team at TIRR Memorial Hermann ...