Rehab FAQs
Answers for Your Rehab Journey
Find answers to common rehab questions and learn more about recovery, prosthetic training, daily mobility, and support resources available along the way.
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Rehabilitation is a guided recovery process that helps patients build strength, improve balance, increase mobility, and learn safe ways to move during daily life.
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Rehab may begin before or after receiving a prosthesis, depending on your healing, medical needs, and care plan. Your physician, therapist, and prosthetist can help determine the right timing.
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Quorum Prosthetics does not provide rehabilitation therapy. However, we support the prosthetic side of care and can help connect patients with helpful rehabilitation resources, including PAM Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Greeley and PAM Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Golden.
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Before receiving a prosthesis, rehab may focus on strength, flexibility, balance, safe transfers, residual limb care, swelling management, and preparing your body for future prosthetic use.
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After receiving a prosthesis, rehab may include gait training, balance work, weight shifting, stairs, endurance, safe movement, and learning how to use your prosthesis during daily activities.
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Gait training helps patients learn or improve how they walk with a prosthesis. It may focus on posture, step length, balance, weight distribution, and walking safely on different surfaces.
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Every patient’s timeline is different. Rehab may depend on your amputation level, healing, strength, comfort, goals, prosthetic fit, and overall health.
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Tell your therapist and contact your prosthetist if you notice pain, pressure, rubbing, skin irritation, or redness that does not fade after removing your prosthesis.
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Yes. Rehab can help patients build the strength, balance, confidence, and movement skills needed to return to home routines, work, hobbies, and meaningful activities.
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Start with your physician, prosthetist, or care team. They can help determine whether rehabilitation may be helpful and guide you toward the right resources.
