Your patients shouldn't have to wait for months to get the help they need. Amputees can suffer greatly with less movement, leading to more muscle atrophy, greater deconditioning, and reduced joint range of motion.  
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• Trouble shoot the situation together  
• Simple solutions for modification
• Make cable adjustments easily 
  
• Help patients manage their volume

Method: Retrospective observational study on 4,578 Veterans hospitalized for LLA and discharged 2003- 2004, looking at time to all-cause mortality from the amputation surgical date up to the 3 yr anniversary.

Results: 1,300 (28.4%) persons received a prescription for a prosthetic limb within 1 yr after the surgical amputation. About 46% (n = 2,086) of all Veterans w LLA died within 3 yr of the surgical anniversary. Among those who received a prescription for a prosthetic limb, only 25.2% died within 3 yr of the surgical anniversary. 

Discussion: The time to receipt of the prescription for a prosthetic limb (prosthetic fitting) was associated with lower mortality.

Conclusions: 

• It is important that patients who would benefit from a lower limb prosthesis obtain one as soon as they are medically stable. 
• Early fitting may provide a psychological boost to patients’ motivation, further promoting their overall health.
• Patient-centered care and early prosthetic fitting, is associated
  with longer survival.

Reference:​ Kurichi JE, Kwong P, Vogel WB, Xie D, Cowper Ripley D, Bates BE. Effects of prosthetic limb prescription on 3-year mortality among Veterans with lower-limb amputation. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2015;52(4):385-96. doi: 10.1682/JRRD.2014.09.0209. PMID: 26348602; PMCID: PMC4563808