Amputee Rehabilitation

RHCI provides comprehensive rehabilitation services to help the patient with a recent amputation achieve maximum functional independence. Strengths of the program include wound care, pain management, prosthetic fitting and training and community reintegration activities.

The goals of RHCI’s Amputee Rehabilitation Program are to:

• Maximize the amputee’s functional independence
• Assist in the patient’s emotional adjustment
• Enhance the quality of life of amputees

Program components include:

• Individualized, outcome-oriented treatment plan
• Coordinated, intensive therapies to promote maximum functional improvement
• Comprehensive educational program
• Support resources to assist with the emotional adjustment to amputation
• Nutrition education and counseling
• Therapeutic recreation services
• Specialty services, ordered by the patient’s physician as needed, including home evaluation, on-site Prosthetics Clinic, etc.
• Patient-centered discharge planning, including follow-up outpatient care and links to community resources

Information, referrals: (508) 833–4200