From the smallest of steps, we learn to travel great distances

In rehabilitation, we face a difficult problem to overcome, such as the loss of motivation of the client during the first training sessions. Most often this is due to stereotypes that it is difficult and painful to use a prosthesis, but the client’s desire to get over the problem as quickly as possible is absolutely correct.

As an amputee at the stage of stump healing, a person visualizes that as soon as he or she puts on a prosthesis, he or she will immediately run on it. The whole situation with the absence of a limb will turn into a terrible dream and will be forgotten, but this is not quite true.

Our clients learn in rehabilitation that everything is achieved through exercise and if today you find it difficult and the exercises that are selected by our rehabilitation therapist are performed to the fullest extent, every day the load will be easier and easier and the result will not be long in coming

Rehabilitation is a team effort. And the leader of this team is and will always be the amputee. Rehabilitologists and prosthetists are his officers, and relatives are a large, motivated, invincible army. Only in this way, approaching the issue of rehabilitation, a person can regain 90% of the usual way of life. I.e. to maximize the quality of life and learn to do without other people’s help.

At the initial session with the client before taking the impression of the stump and selecting the prosthesis, we always warn that it is important to set yourself up for a positive result. There are no hopeless situations and we are not facing a problem, but a task to achieve the same quality of life in new physiological conditions as before the amputation. A prosthesis is a means of rehabilitation, a tool that you have to learn how to use. Our rehabilitation therapist is not only a professional, but also an active user of the prosthesis, the prosthetists are professionals in the manufacture of highly technical prosthetic limbs and we all know exactly how to teach a new user of a prosthesis all its possibilities.

An important part of rehabilitation is working with the client’s relatives and we are happy when we see how relatives unitedly support the amputee, help him to keep his hands up, listen attentively to us and accept us as their companions.

It is important to listen to the rehabilitator and not to despair if something does not work out. You can achieve a lot at any age and physiological condition, provided you have daily, stable training and, of course, you are determined to achieve results. It is necessary to learn how to use the prosthesis!

We are born and learn to walk for a year, the same happens with a prosthesis, the client finds himself in new physiological conditions, which must be accepted, to which he must get used to, adapt, reorganize the musculoskeletal system and finally walk on the prosthesis. Relatives should focus as much as possible on making sure that all recommendations are followed properly, together rejoice in even minimal progress, repeat that every day from the exercises will become easier to use the prosthesis. Remember that from the smallest steps, we learn to overcome great distances!