The Sinai Rehabilitation Center
Comprehensive Limb Loss Rehabilitation Program
Limb loss or limb difference can be a life changing event. Physical, psychological, and social challenges can be addressed through a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach. Sinai Rehabilitation Center (SRC) has over 35 years of experience in assessing and providing care for individuals with upper and lower extremity limb loss. The SRC program is CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) accredited and is a partner facility with the Amputee Coalition. Regardless if your surgery is performed at Sinai Hospital, we coordinate the continuity of care through your acute hospitalization, inpatient rehabilitation, home care rehabilitation, and transition to outpatient. We work with primary care physicians, surgeons, wound care specialists, podiatrists and other members of your health care team. We have longstanding relationships with the best prosthetists in the Baltimore area. If you are already working with a prosthetic company, we are available to coordinate with them for your needs.
Our interdisciplinary team utilizes best practices to ensure a holistic, patient-centered approach for individuals age 16 and older.
Team Members
- Physiatrist– a physician specializing in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation who provides overall direction and oversight for your lifelong care needs.
- Physical Therapist– a healthcare professional who specializes in strength, balance, mobility, pain, pre and post prosthetic training.
- Occupational Therapist– a healthcare professional who specializes in activities of daily living and upper limb strength and prosthetic training.
- Health Psychologist– a healthcare professional who helps individuals adjust to their life changing event.
- Prosthetist– a healthcare professional who designs, fits, and fabricates prostheses.
- Rehabilitation Engineer– utilizes gait lab and other technologies to assess for and create custom 3D printed adaptive devices.
- Driving Specialist– a certified occupational therapist who assesses and provides training for return to driving.
- Social Worker– a healthcare professional who assists with coordinating needed resources.
- Nurse Coordinator– ensures your care is proceeding as planned and follows up with you periodically for any medical or functional changes in your condition.
What to Expect at Your Clinic Visit
We consider care for limb loss to be a lifelong relationship. Your initial consultation will include seeing the Physiatrist and other healthcare professionals to develop an individualized, comprehensive plan.
After an initial consultation, further visits will continue for focus on:
- Prevention of secondary complications including further limb loss and wounds.
- Education about risk factors for vascular disease, diabetes, skin and foot care, smoking cessation, fall prevention, proper footwear.
- Treatment including but not limited to physical mobility needs, psychological needs, residual limb pain, phantom limb pain and sensation, skin breakdown, neuromas, neuropathy, excessive sweating.
- Prescription for prostheses and supplies including all necessary paperwork on an ongoing basis.
- Referral for other services including but not limited to additional Physiatry specialists for back pain, neck pain, stroke rehabilitation, wheelchair prescriptions, driving program.
- Facilitate connections with limb loss organizations and peer support programs.
Our program utilizes advanced technologies for assessment and treatment of complex situations and includes:
- State-of-the-art gait lab and other technologies in the Division of Rehabilitation Engineering to assess certain abnormalities of walking and to 3D print custom designed assistive and adaptive equipment that is not commercially available.
- Botulinum toxin injection for excessive sweating.
- Interventional pain blocks and neurostimulation procedures for severe phantom pain.
- Neuroma injection.
- Nerve conduction and muscle testing (NCS/EMG).
- Outcomes measurements and ongoing research in limb loss care.
Our mission is to prevent further limb loss or complications from limb loss, restore quality of life, and provide timely access to obtaining appropriate prosthetic devices. Our documentation is structured to meet the requirements of Medicare and other insurers.
To schedule an appointment, call 410-601-6408.