After a mastectomy (breast removal surgery), rest is important to avoid post-surgery complications. However, movement is essential to your treatment and recovery after surgery and should start as soon ...
The regional prosthetic service provides assessment, prescriptions, manufacture, rehabilitation, care and maintenance of upper and lower limb prostheses (artificial limbs). The multidisciplinary team ...
For example, some people use padding or a breast prosthesis on one side to help with unevenness. For some, the risk of corrective surgery may not outweigh the benefit. In this case, some people accept ...
Prosthetists evaluate for, construct, and provide external prosthetic devices that approximate the function and form of an amputated limb from just post-surgical to all ages and activity levels. O&P ...
After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2012 at age 64 and undergoing a double mastectomy, the American Horror Story alum opted not to have reconstruction surgery to restore her breasts.