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PTs and PTAs play crucial roles in the recovery and ongoing care of those with limb loss or limb difference.
All the patient wanted to do was walk up steps so that he could visit his grandchildren.
A few years ago, Michael Verbsky, PT, MSPT, was working with a patient who was slow in learning to trust his prosthetic limb on level-surface walking. So even thinking about going up steps with it scared him. He was afraid he would fall, "floundering like a fish at the bottom of the staircase," Verbsky recalls.
Date: April 1, 2022
Contact: aptamag@apta.org
Content Type: Feature
Michele Wojciechowski
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