Prosthetic Rehab

[PTpro]

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I've been thinking about prosthetic rehab as I'm getting ready to start school next year and am looking to see if anyone has any feedback on it as a clinical rotation and/or and a career setting.

 

[noyceguy]

what is prothetic rehab?

 

[Azimuthal]

S/he probably means rehab of patients with upper/lower limb amputation, from pre-prosthetic to functional use.

 

[DesertPT]

Military seems like you're most likely bet to have a career built primarily around these kind of patients. I would think that in general PT jobs dedicated solely to prosthetics would be pretty far and few between.

 

[Bluecase]

They definitely do exist in the inpatient rehab settings and on a smaller scale the outpatient setting.

There are specific floors/wings of rehab hospitals devoted to this.

I think it would be more difficult to do this on an outpatient basis unless you are part of a big regional healthcare system and are part of a prosthetics team which gets most of the patients with prosthesis from a specific population area. This exists where I work.