George Washington University Hospital’s comprehensive amputee rehabilitation program provides patients with pre-prosthetic training, prosthetic training, and limb preservation after upper and/or lower extremity amputations. Our amputee program is interdisciplinary, including physical therapists occupational therapists prosthetists, orthotists, wound care providers, and doctors of physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Our team works with patients who have experienced limb loss due to trauma, diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, infection, tumors, and conditions present at birth.
To contact the Outpatient Rehabilitation Center, please call 202-715-5655.
Goals of the Amputee Program
The main goal of our program is to help every patient return to their highest level of function, including community re-integration and independence. We do this by helping patients:
- Learn how to care for residual limb and use of prosthesis for everyday activities
- Put on and take off their prosthesis, and manage all other components of prosthesis
- Learn techniques to address phantom pain and sensations
- Address limb optimization of non-residual limb
- Create a patient-specific home exercise program
- Strengthen balance and coordination for optimal functional mobility
- Connect with a peer visitor who has experienced limb loss
- Participate in our Amputee Support Group