As an amputee physiotherapist, I am often asked for advice by recent lower limb amputees on appropriate footwear. One of the most common questions is: What is the best type of shoe to wear on my prosthetic foot? This is a very important question for several reasons. Firstly, the most important issue for an amputee [...]
I’m really lucky with my job – but some days, working with people with leg amputations, are particularly stellar. I had one of those this week and I’d like to share it with you. I hope that you will find it as motivating and uplifting as I did. The whole day really fitted in nicely [...]
Have you set your new goal for 2012 yet? Hopefully you have committed your plan to paper, which means you are seriously setting out to achieve it. In order to know at the end of your timeframe, whether you have achieved your goal or not, you need to know where you are starting from. This [...]
For someone with a leg amputation, one of the first things to do when making a “New Year’s Resolution” to modify something about yourself or your life, is to reflect and see how you did last year. In a nutshell, did you have a goal last year? And was it achieved to any degree? If [...]
After leg amputation, to keep yourself moving forward both literally and metaphorically, you need to know exactly where you are now. At the beginning of each New Year we are swamped by talk of New Year’s Resolutions. What do we want to do, lose, give up, start, achieve and so on. This sort of talk [...]
