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 [...]
Successfully using your leg prosthesis is a confidence game. Very often a fall or misadventure when learning to use your leg prosthesis will greatly and adversely affect your ability to “trust” your prosthesis and learn to incorporate it’s use with confidence in your daily life. Whenever I lecture to physiotherapists who train amputees in the [...]
Sometimes as a leg amputee you will need to decide when you should NOT WEAR your prosthetic leg. It’s probably best to avoid wearing your prosthesis when: You have a broken area/ blister/ sore on your stump. If the skin on your residual limb is broken, wearing your prosthetic leg will undoubtedly make it worse, [...]
Leg amputees need to take special care to maintain a consistent stump volume to ensure their prosthetic leg fits well and doesn’t hurt or rub their residual limb. Sometimes in my gym, I will be ready to treat an amputee and they will arrive unable to don their prosthetic leg, which is a frustrating outcome [...]
It’s a common scenario for an amputee to be wearing their prosthetic leg and going along quite well and then one day, seemingly all of a sudden it becomes uncomfortable. There can be many reasons for this, but here are some of the common ones for you to look out for: Your stump has been [...]
