Equipment for individuals with limb deficiency
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Aim:
- To familiarise the reader with a range of equipment – including prostheses – and their use in the rehabilitation of patients prior to and following amputation.
To include the following plus anything else you feel is relevant:
Risk Assessment
- Carry out (where applicable) an appropriate risk assessment and recognise/understand the inherent risk in the provision and use of specialist equipment
- ndications and contraindications of specific equipment used in the management and treatment of lower limb amputees
- Advantages and disadvantages of the various types of specialist equipment provided
- Advice to discover local regulations and current government legislation relating to Health and Safety and Manual Handling
- Professional responsibility of instructing/educating others (patients/clients/careers/relatives & other health professionals) in the safe use of equipment
- Many core skills are applicable and transferable to this field of rehabilitation
Wheelchairs
- Component parts of wheelchairs and explain their influences on posture, mobility, stability and performance
- Importance of pressure relief and the means of achieving it
- Awareness of the existence of appropriate guidelines and legislation relating to the provision of wheelchairs
- Include WHO wheelchair training resource (http://www.who.int/disabilities/publications/technology/wheelchairguidelines/en/ and http://www.who.int/disabilities/technology/wheelchairpackage/en/ and http://www.who.int/disabilities/technology/wheelchairpackage/wstpintermediate/en/))
Manual Handling Equipment
- Equipment which aids manual handling of patients and independent patient transfers
- Safe use of commonly used manual handling equipment used within this patient group
Early Walking Aids
- Importance of early walking aids as an assessment and treatment tool
- Different types of commonly used early walking aids
- Different applications of the commonly used early walking aids
Prostheses
- Prostheses for the most common levels of amputation (link to Prosthetics page in Physiopedia)
Walking Aids
- Different types of walking aids and evaluate their appropriate use within the rehabilitation process in relation to the ability of the individual amputee and their influence on gait
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