Amputation & Inpatient Medical Rehab

In this episode of Medical Rehab Matters, we talk about amputation, prosthetics and inpatient medical rehabilitation. About 185,000 amputations occur in the U.S. each year and approximately 2 million Americans live with limb loss and that number is expected to double in coming years. Our guests are Roseann Sdoia, who lost her leg in the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, her doctor, David Crandell, MD, Medical Director of the Amputee Program at Spaulding, and Scott Riddle, CPO, a prosthetist and Vice President of Orthotics, Prosthetics and Bionics at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital. Cohosts: Patricia Sullivan, director of communications for the American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association and Robert Krug, MD, who is the immediate past chairman of the AMRPA Board and Vice President of Medical Affairs for the Advisory Group for Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital.