Health Care, Therapy and Rehabilitation Services: Amputation/Limb Differences

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International
National
Regional Listings:   New England
State Listings:   CO / IL / MI/ MS / OH / PA    (Official USPS State Abbreviations)
Country Listings:   Canada   

International

New Sign Association of Children's Prosthetic-Orthotic Clinics is an association of professionals from the United States, Canada and other countries who are involved in clinics which provide prosthetic-orthotic care for children with limb loss or orthopaedic disabilities. Their website includes a list of clinics, membership and a newsletter on prosthetic and orthotic treatments. The ACPOC is head quartered at 6300 N. River Road, Suite 727, Rosemont, Illinois, 60018-4226

National

New Sign American Board for Certification in Orthotics and Prosthetics (ABCOP) is the national certifying and accrediting body for the orthotic and prosthetic professions. The public requires and deserves assurance that the persons providing orthotic and prosthetic services and care are qualified to provide the appropriate services, and it was on this basis that the ABC was established as a credentialing organization. This website has a list of Orthotic and Prosthetic resources. The ABC is located at 330 John Carlyle Street, Suite 210, Alexandria, VA 22314. Phone (703) 836-7114, FAX (703) 836-0838.

New Sign Association of Children's Prosthetic-Orthotic Clinics is an association of professionals from the United States and Canada who are involved in clinics which provide prosthetic-orthotic care for children with limb loss or orthopaedic disabilities. Their website includes a list of clinics, membership and a newsletter on prosthetic and orthotic treatments. The ACPOC is head quartered at 6300 N. River Road, Suite 727, Rosemont, Illinois, 60018-4226.

Regional Listings

New England States

New Sign New England Orthotic and Prosthetic Systems, LLC is one of New England's leading providers of high quality orthotic and prosthetic patient care services and products. The partnership was founded by certified orthotists and prosthetists who were dissatisfied with large impersonal corporations where the constant pressures of consolidation and cost containment can hamper effective patient care. In addition, they did not want local patient care decisions to be affected by administrators in some far away corporate headquarters. These professionals wanted to truly make a difference and established a practice based upon their philosophy and management protocol. Call Toll Free: 888-551-8588 or e-mail at info@neops.com

State Listings

Colorado

New Sign Orthotic Prosthetic Solutions, LLC brings together the talents and expertise of independent practitioners serving patients all along Colorado�s Front Range. The locally owned corporation was formed in 2001, by an orthotist, a prosthetist and a pedorthist who united their established practices under one roof in Fort Collins, Colorado. Today, OPS includes eight certified practitioners in three offices, offering full-service quality care in Cheyenne, Canon City and everywhere in between, from the foothills of the Rockies to the plains of Nebraska. For more information call toll free: 866-484-8388.

Illinois

New Sign Footco Orthopedic is a Chicago area provider of clinical services, orthotic fabrication and educational products since 1984 under the direction of Tim Porcelli, C. Ped, L.E.O. Call (312) 409-2175.

Michigan

New SignMary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital exists to restore independence, hope, and freedom through rehabilitation to people with disabilities of Michigan for children and adults with the following conditions: spinal injuries, brain injuries, strokes, orthopedic injuries, neurological conditions, congenital abnormalities, pain, and amputation. The Amputee Program at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital features a full continuum of care that includes inpatient, outpatient, and clinic services. They provide intensive, comprehensive, coordinated, multidisciplinary rehabilitation for patients who have experienced an amputation of their lower extremity. Their amputee team therapists possess numerous years of experience and training specific to amputee rehabilitation. For more information, contact this Hospital at 235 Wealthy SE, Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA) 49503, Phone: 800.528.8989 or send e-mail to: info@maryfreebed.com

Mississippi

Methodist Rehabilitation Center provides comprehensive medical rehabilitation programs for people with spinal cord and brain injuries, stroke and other neurological and orthopedic disorders and treats patients from all of Mississippi's 82 counties and from neighboring states." Methodist Rehabilitation Center, 1350 East Woodrow Wilson, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, or call (800) 223-6672.

Ohio

Cleveland Clinic Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is accredited by the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Health Care Organization (JCAHO). Their mission for their Health System�s Inpatient and Outpatient Comprehensive Rehabilitation Program is to assist the individual to overcome physical, psychosocial, cognitive, and vocational impairments; disabilities, and handicaps. Using the transdisciplinary rehabilitation team approach, they will help in restoring maximal independence in their patients and their families. Orthotics and Prosthetics provides braces (orthoses) and/or artificial limbs (prostheses) to patients of diverse age groups and diagnoses. Patients who receive a prescription from a physician are managed by nationally certified and state licensed practitioners who utilize proven techniques and high quality standards to ensure the greatest return of function or reduction of pain. The Cleveland Clinic is located at 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195 or call 216.444.2200 or 800.223.2273 or TTY 216.444.0261.

Pennsylvania

New Sign Boas Surgical has specially trained and educated professionals evaluating patients, whom are referred to us by their physician or other health care providers. We see patients in our Allentown and Wyomissing office or in Hospitals, Nursing Homes, and Therapy Departments, throughout the Lehigh, Berks, Carbon and Schuylkill areas.

Magee Rehabilitation Hospital opened in 1958 as the Philadelphia region's original provider of physical and cognitive rehabilitation. Magee is one of 16 federally designated model Regional Spinal Cord Injury Centers, and is part of the brain injury model centers program. It also provides services for amputees and physical therapy for people with orthopedic issues. 1513 Race Street Philadelphia, PA 19102-1177 or call 215-587-3000 To E-mail, fill out the email form on the website.

MossRehab is a hospital in the Philadelphia area offers comprehensive care to people with a broad range of conditions--including stroke, brain injury, orthopaedic and musculoskeletal disabilities, spinal cord dysfunction, pulmonary disorders, amputations, and other forms of disability. The site also offers a wide variety of other information on disability-related subjects including the ADA and accessible travel.

Country Listings

Canada

New Sign Prescription Foot Orthotic Laboratory Association was founded in 1990 and is a non-profit professional Association dedicated to promoting and improving the efficacy of custom, prescription foot orthoses to the medical professions, the public, and to third-party providers of medical coverage. Originally founded with 15 laboratories from across the United States, the association has grown to 47 member laboratories, 15 located in Canada. Prescription Foot Orthotic Laboratory Association is located at 1383 Homer Street, Vancouver, BC V6B5M9, Canada.

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