Spring 2006 – Early Prosthetic Management Can Lead to Better Outcomes
Few topics in rehabilitation elicit more debate and exhibit less consensus than the management of patients in the first days after lower-extremity amputation surgery and the timing and method of their transition into a prosthetic limb.
This important decision is impacted by (1) the surgeon’s natural desire to closely monitor the new amputee’s recovery by regularly examining the progress of wound healing; (2) rehabilitation practitioners’ preference for resuming exercise and initiating weightbearing and prosthetic intervention as soon as practicable; and (3) reimbursement realities.
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