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Outpatient Limb Loss Therapy at UPMC Rehabilitation Institute

Rehabilitation After Limb Loss

The amputee rehabilitation program prepares you for prosthetic use by implementing a functional rehabilitation program that includes strengthening, balance and fall prevention, agility, coordination, functional activities and independence with mobility.

Our team of therapists has specialized training in amputation rehab and prosthetics.

The team will work to:

  • Assist with one’s ability to perform everyday activities including self-care, homemaking, work-related, and return to sport/recreation leisure activities
  • Educate about desensitization techniques and pain management
  • Select and employ specific outcome measures to track progress with mobility
  • Teach exercises to increase mobility with use of prosthesis

Each person’s course of recovery will be tailored to meet their individual goals/needs.

Conditions We Treat

  • Lower limb amputation
  • Upper limb amputation

Pre-Prosthetic

During this phase, your physical or occupational therapist will progress your mobility without the prosthesis. The therapist will focus on strengthening and stretching your amputated limb to get you ready for wearing and using the prosthesis to enhance function. 

Your therapist will work with your rehab doctor and/or surgeon to identify when your limb is ready to be fit with a prosthesis. 

Starting therapy before the prosthetic limb is ready can lead to optimal function.

Prosthetic Training

Therapists will teach you how to care for and manage the use of a prosthesis to protect your limb and optimize function. The team will work with your rehab doctor and prosthetist to maximize comfort and increase endurance and gait mobility.

Maintenance

This will be common as time progresses after amputation. If at any time you feel you need more therapy services or adjustments to your prosthesis, please call your rehab doctor.

Ongoing Support

The UPMC Amp Up! Support Group is run by individuals with limb loss. The group meets monthly to provide peer support and education for amputees and their families

Locations for Limb Loss Therapy

Allison Park
412-487-4710

Station Medical Center (Altoona)
814-889-3900

Chapel Harbor (Fox Chapel)
412-781-0602

Greensburg
724-830-8750

Greenville
724-588-3011

UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex (Cranberry)
724-720-3050

Nagle Road (Erie)
814-877-7078

Monroeville – Oxford Drive
412-380-0551

Moon Township
412-269-7062 

South Hills
412-851-8850 

Uniontown
724-437-7500

New Castle – Nesbitt Place
724-658-2801

North Strabane
724-229-5260

Pittsburgh – Mercy Pavilion 
412-642-5460

McCandless
412-630-9750

Hermitage
724-347-6660

Pittsburgh – Mercy Pavilion 
412-642-5460

South Side 
412-586-6900

West 26th (Erie)
814-452-4447

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