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You have good info I wish I could talk to you I’m looking at amputation of right foot

As someone pre op this has been the most helpful advice I’ve found so far. Thanks guys x

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A great exercise to look forward to

I'm a new below the knee amputee and will be getting my new limb this tuesday so I'm hoping to have some kind of a normal life.

No....he's NO inspiration👑

I have a Symes amputation. I am extremely happy with it.

This video helped me a lot as I’m a strength & conditioning student finishing my masters 🙌🏽

I am a fairly new amputee, 12/5/22, BK Everything has gone pretty well. I’ve had many interruptions in the process but I’m happy I did this! I have a life again. I am in a suspension socket, with 9mm gel liner. I start the day with just the liner and as my body heats up, I add a 1 weight sock. My question is regarding blisters … what can I do to avoid this?

Well i have learnt thank you

To this post, I am not shy at all about my leg. The biggest cringe I get is so many in the community focus on, you have to be an extraordinary-extreme athlete etc. etc. I just want to be extraordinarily ordinary. (And I am). Those that start telling me all about how it is to be an amputee. They watch too much tv.

Piston action, get that, but you seemed to have bypassed the socket/fit. I have the pin BK - wall contact with the liner/limb is so important. Distal contact is minimal, I can not imagine bottoming out. I find this presentation confusing - from someone that has never donned a prosthetic. Do not wish to be snarky but…. Oh 14 years in, very active, accident at 60. However, I have begun to want switch to Vacuum system, due to soft tissue atrophy.

Hi Bremner I'm T2 diabetic, 1/2 foot ampd on 3 toes above ball of foot, osteomyelitis, debridement, atr, Other body problems due to dislocated hip 12 years ago, torn shoulder June 2023. Hip imbalance for climbing stairs 4 days ago, I began car sledding and major gain in overall strength, stamina balance etc Looking for a trainer probably online who can get me major improvements of the same magnitude very quickly.

Waste of time and money no one cares womp womp

Do see a lot of people on crutches?

I'm an AKA and i have a Otto Bock x3 { water proof } with a Ossur pro flex foot and i take a shower and go swiming with it but it takes so much time drying the leg off and spraying lube . It's not worth the effort to me .

awesome video. I can relate to a lot of this- my life changed after my double knee surgery- not an amputation, but still a surgery that really altered my life. thanks for your experience strength and hope.

The pity smiles are the worst!!!! 😢

'promosm' 🌈

I never had any appreciation of the dismal truth that is "Falling Sucks" until I joined that club nobody wants to be a member of. Good vid; thanks for posting.

Nice to know❣

Thank you for sharing. This helps. I am facing amputation. Thank you for giving hope💜🕉🙏

هناك امرءة معندهاش رجل اخي ان تصتطيع معاونتها

go out on a limb🤣

Ценно то,что инструктор сам пользуется протезом(так случилось)Он хорошо понимает как помочь в таком положени.Его пример воодушевляет, даёт силы.Замечательный человек и специалист.🙏❤️✌️

I use a bk pin liner and it hurts me very much after 4 years

Thanks so much brother great tips for me to remember because I don’t always put enough socks of my right knee brother 🇨🇦🇺🇸⭐️🐐🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

Christ with you always!! God loves you!

As a below the knee amputee, I'm very thankful to have had Beacon Dr's do my surgery. They are excellent in all that they do. They said they'd have me walking in 6 to 9 weeks. Well 4 weeks later I was up walking around and in 7 weeks I was back to pouring concrete 3 days a week. 14 weeks later, I was back 5 days a week pouring concrete and working 45+ hrs a week. Now I'm back in my work truck and driving to the job and setting and prepping the job for concrete. This past Friday we stamped a job and that was hard because you have to use you get obviously to stomp down on the mats to leave an imprint in the concrete. I was so tired after work that day.

Thanks you brother for being great person helping so many peoples in USA 🇺🇸 and across border your neighbor 🇨🇦 Canada 🍁 grateful that you do that kind of job I’m learning so much from both of you cheers this is all my beers for you 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🐐🇺🇸🇨🇦🏒🐐🐐 from Canada 🇨🇦 Toronto Ontario brother

I am an amputee on my right leg below my knee! I can't walk without a cane! It almost makes me want to sit around the house and go no where!

I lost My right leg below the knee, a year and half. And it's very hard journey. There's time I feel depressed. And there I want to learn more for myself...

The prosthetist is supposed to be able to lengthen or shorten a prosthetic leg. Why exactly not? You shouldn't have to go back to your doctor or insurance company. What's the reason why your prosthetist won't lengthen or shorten it for you? I'm an aka amputee for 55 years, never had problems until I came to the USA. I've seen three prosthetists and had two poorly made legs. Either they make it too long or too short by adding or removing spacers. I've never in all my 55 years heard of that before. Height is adjusted by shortening the pylon or fitting the correct legth pylon for an aka. I've had endless visits for alignment and they can't get it right. Now they want to make me a second new legblaming components. I've had better and worse components before and never fallen as much as I've fallen on this leg. I keep asking them to make the alignment etc right on the first new leg, before we even consider a second new leg because how do I know they can make the second new leg right if they can't fix alignment on the first few leg. Also they've made me lose functionality and say to me that they weren't there when I had functionality for 55 years so so they have to take my word for it. (honestly!). They also say to me that maybe I'm looking for perfection. (Honestly!) I'm merely looking for the same stability and functions I always had all my life. I've lost so much time and money in gas and no PTO every time I must return for something breaking hurting etc, and they can't relate to that. Now for the third time I been offered a refund by three companies, because they can't help me. Either the leg is too short or too long. And other issues. I can't keep trying out new companies and never get a leg that I'm used to.

You walk beautifully. I also would never have thought about how much if affects far more than your ability to walk. 💕

42 years as a left bk. Difficult at first, but my physiotherapist had no time for self pity. I just retired after 31 years as a Manager for a crown corporation, married with 4 children who are my greatest pride, including my 3 grandkids. My wife has supported and pushed me over the years, and I love her deeply for this. Lately, looking back, I never really focused on just how big a change this was. Unfortunately I’ve had chronic intractable pain, but I’ve not let it stop me from having a satisfying life. Great video.

This guy moves better than me and I have two legs

It's been 1 and a half yrs since my leg was amputated below the knee and I have not started using my prosthetic leg yet I am a positive person and life has been a huge struggle since my surgery I need help to get out of this chair what can I do to move forward

totally agree, however. i offset the one leg balance by crossing my amputated leg arm across my body to compensate for the weight loss allowing me safer transfers with one leg. but i still want to walk again. I’m helped by having a stroke 20 years before the amputation so my right leg& hand and arm take all the support very strong after 20 years of compensating for a weak left side from the stroke plus i’ve further strengthened the meat leg with one legged minimal squats& learning the little micro adjustments needed by my good leg& foot to maintain balance. still use a better left arm crossover to compensate for weight loss of amputated left leg

you guys suck from a bilateral above knee amputee

всё равно-даже идеальный протез не заменит живую конечность!Жизнь разделится на "до и и после"!

Background music is too loud and distracting.

I was an occupational therapist for 40 years and liked working with upper extremity amputees. We did post production functional testing the spoke to the prosthetic department regarding adjustments

Pls help me out sir

Do you have a branch here in the phillippines?

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EXCELLENT

Fantastic! You always have such great programs to follow. Thank you for all you do! It is so great to have a guide to help me keep in good practice!

You got it take your time ❤❤❤❤❤

it is good to know that how disable people live in their life and here in Myanmar there are many disable people because of out door or indoor accidents or bonelife and thank you for zoom meeting. please upload more sisters.

Thank you for this. About to get my first prosthetic in the next couple of weeks, and gait/deviation was not even a problem I was considering. Taking things one step at a time, and I will definitely bear this in mind when getting started.