Amputee Rehabilitation Program: Admission Criteria

• Has an amputation of the lower limb
• Willingness to work with the rehabilitation team and accept recommendations

Exclusion Criteria

• Mental incapacity that prevent the person from learning the steps to correctly put the limb on (no consistent family/care give that can be taught)
• Severe cardiac involvement
• Severe bilateral knee or hip contractures - greater than 35 degrees
• Bilateral above knee amputation (case specific exceptions are considered)
• Consistent bowel soiling not able to be contained within an incontinence product
• Other co-morbidities that prevent the person from walking - spinal cord injury or severe stroke