AMPUTEE AND PROSTHETIC SERVICES

Carolinas Rehabilitation provides comprehensive outpatient services to persons of all ages who have undergone an upper or lower extremity amputation.

Prosthetic and related therapy services include:

• Desensitization/pain management and education (neuromas, phantom pain)
• Edema control
• Pre-operative evaluation and education
• Pre-prosthetic education by a physician, physical therapist, prosthetist and nurse
• Medical and functional evaluation with a prosthetic recommendation by a staff physiatrist specializing in prosthetics
• Prosthetic education/management
• Prosthetic fabrication and fit evaluation
• Skin care
• Wound care
• Cardiovascular conditioning
• Therapeutic exercise
• Sports/leisure

• Physical/occupational therapy referral
• Carolinas Driving School for the Disabled
• Re-integration into community
• Wheelchair Seating and Positioning Clinic
• Referral to Amputee Support Group
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Satellite clinics are offered in the North Carolina cities of Monroe, Gastonia, Concord and Shelby. Carolinas Rehabilitation accepts referrals for amputee and prosthetic services from patients, physicians, therapists, community agencies, hospital discharge planners, insurance companies and other healthcare professionals.

For more information about Amputee and Prosthetic Services at Carolinas Rehabilitation or to schedule an appointment, please call 1-800-634-2256 or email.