Amputation

1. What should you take note of when observing patients?

2. Assessing how limitations in mobility from an amputation affect functional activities is an example of ______________________.

3. How can therapy help patients with amputations or residual limbs?

4. What is one thing that can be done on a daily basis to help patients with amputations or prosthetics?

5. For patients that are in bed most of the time, you should teach them how to use side rails and the trapeze to change positions frequently and on their own.

6. Keeping weight and pressure off of any reddened areas and wounds is beneficial for an amputee or prosthetic patient.

7. Approximately how many disabled adults over the age of 65 would benefit from physical rehabilitation?

8. One of the goals of0 rehabilitation for amputees is __________________________.

9. Investing a little extra time in working with patients to increase their ability to perform their own ADLs will result in saving a significant amount of time in the long run.

10. One way to make rehabilitation easier for a patient with a prosthetic easier is _____________________________.