Mount Sinai’s Post-Amputation Care Program focuses on three primary goals:

1. Preventing complications which may arise after surgery;
2. Providing patients with a multidisciplinary program designed to maximize mobility and self-care functions with the remaining limbs;
3. Initiating the goal-setting and preparations needed for eventual prosthetic prescription and training (when appropriate).

The program functions as part of a continuum of care, including:

• Pre-operative consultation between the surgeon and the physiatrist,
• Immediate post-operative rehabilitation services provided on the acute surgical floor,
• The Program on the inpatient rehabilitation unit,
• Discharge planning and community follow-up coordinated with home care agencies,
• Transition to an outpatient therapy program,
• Interaction with a prosthetist (when appropriate based on surgical healing and patient goals) who makes the artificial limb,
• Training in use of a prosthesis, usually on an outpatient basis.

Patients of the Post-Amputation Care Program have the confidence of knowing that regardless of whether they receive inpatient or outpatient care, they will always have access to the full range of medical expertise and technological resources of The Mount Sinai Medical Center. This includes the availability of numerous clinicians on site to allow for additional treatment options.