Amputee Rehabilitation

In Singapore General Hospital, the Physiotherapy department provides a full continuum of rehabilitative needs for pre-operative, acute post-operative, pre-prosthetic and prosthetic stages as well as long-term follow-up of individuals with upper and lower limb amputation.

 

 

Physiotherapy services include:

• Oema management
  
• Phantom/residual pain management
  
• Re-conditioning and mobility training
  
• Education on performing activities of daily living safely
  
• Pre and post prosthetic rehabilitation
  
• Rehabilitation towards returning to work for appropriate patients
  
• Care-giver training as appropriate

 

Along with a multidisciplinary team, we work together in the following areas:

• Assessing the suitability of patients referred for amputee rehabilitation
  
• Wound management
  
• Pain control
  
• Care of residual limb
  
• Treatment of underlying health conditions
  
• Fitting of prosthesis
  
• Planning for suitable discharge back home and continual rehabilitation
  

 

As patient progress through the programme, they gain the strength and confidence they need to pursue their daily functional and work-relatedactivities independently.