Detecting Changes in Comfort, Pain, and Mobility Over Clinical Milestones for Individuals With Lower Limb Loss.

Background: Functional mobility, comfort and the absence of pain are key goals of prosthetic treatment. Outcome measures (OMs) evaluate the impact of treatment and normative and minimal detectable change (MDC) values are key to interpreting these scores and measuring treatment outcomes.

Objectives: This study seeks to 1) present practice-based normative values of four commonly used OMs at four prosthetic milestones and 2) explore the MDC of the measures over the treatment period.

An environmental scan of limb loss rehabilitation centers across Canada.

Background: The clinical landscape of limb loss rehabilitation across Canada is poorly delineated, lacks standard rehabilitation guidelines, and is without a shared clinical database.

Objective: To address these gaps, the objective of the present study was to undertake an environmental scan of the rehabilitation centers across Canada that provide inpatient and/or outpatient services to the limb loss community.

Study Design: An environmental scan was conducted to describe the rehabilitation service structure, program services, and outcome measures of sites across Canada.

The physical experiences of women with lower limb absence during pregnancy and postpartum: symptoms, prosthesis management & mobility.

Purpose: Little information is available to women with lower limb absence (LLA) and their health care providers regarding the impacts they may experience during the perinatal period. This study explores the physical impacts of pregnancy on women with LLA, including mobility, prosthesis fit and prosthesis use.

Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with 19 women with LLA who had experienced pregnancy in the last 10 years.

Resources, relationships, and resilience: The psychosocial experiences of women with lower limb absence during pregnancy and postpartum.

Background: There is limited research on the unique needs of women with lower limb absence (LLA) during pregnancy and postpartum. The lack of information can negatively impact women's physical and emotional experiences.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to explore the psychosocial experiences of individuals with LLA through the pregnancy and postpartum periods, and to provide information to women and health care providers (HCPs) on what they can expect.

Use of standardized outcome measures for people with lower-limb amputation: A survey of prosthetic practitioners in Canada.

Background: Outcome measures (OMs) are useful tools; however, clinicians may find implementing them into clinical practice challenging.

Objectives: To characterize Canadian prosthetists' use of OMs for people with lower-limb amputation, including motivations for use, comfort selecting OMs, resources available for administration, and barriers to implementation.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted between March and July 2021.