🌟 Understanding Your Body After Amputation — Digital PDF Guide

Description

Understanding Your Body After Amputation

Body awareness after amputation begins with noticing how your residual limb and body feel throughout your everyday routine. This practical guide by Lynn DeCola, CPO, helps you recognize patterns before and after using a liner or prosthesis—and describe your experience more clearly to your healthcare team.

Your everyday experience matters. Noticing how your body feels at different points in your routine can help you recognize patterns and describe your experience more clearly to your prosthetist and healthcare team.

Understanding Your Body After Amputation is a concise coaching guide that introduces a simple approach to body awareness after amputation. Created by Lynn DeCola, CPO, of Lifelong Prosthetics, it encourages observation without judgment or unnecessary self-blame.

A Simple Three-Step Approach

This guide walks you through:

• Before putting on your liner or prosthesis: Notice how your residual limb feels, including temperature, sensitivity, and areas of comfort.
• After putting on your liner: Observe what feels different at rest and during gentle movement, if you use a liner.
• After putting on your prosthesis: Notice how your body feels while standing and moving, including weight distribution, stability, and movement.

The goal is to notice differences and understand your own experience.

How This Guide Can Help

Use these observations to:

• Recognize patterns in how your body responds throughout your routine.
• Put your experience into words for conversations with your care team.
• Approach body awareness with curiosity and less self-blame.

Who Is This Guide For?

This guide is designed for people with lower limb amputations, whether you wear a prosthesis or not. If you do not use a liner or prosthesis, the first step provides a starting point for noticing how your residual limb feels.

What You Receive

• One six-page PDF guide.
• A clear, three-step body awareness process.
• Examples of sensations and changes you might notice.
• Background and contact information for Lynn DeCola and Lifelong Prosthetics.

About the Author

Lynn DeCola is an amputee coach and CPO with over 30 years of personal and professional experience in orthotics and prosthetics. Through Lifelong Prosthetics, Lynn provides education, guidance, and support focused on body awareness, communication, and everyday life after limb loss.

Download the guide and begin noticing your body’s everyday patterns.

Important Note

This guide is intended for educational and coaching purposes only. It does not replace medical advice or prosthetic care. Changes in how your body or prosthesis feels should be discussed with a healthcare professional. Lynn does not evaluate, treat, adjust, or fabricate prosthetic devices through this guide. Any prosthetic care or changes should be handled by your prosthetist in coordination with your broader healthcare team.

Digital product only. No physical item will be shipped.