Amputations

Organizations & Information

The American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association: "The American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association (AOPA) is a national trade association committed to providing high quality, unprecedented business services and products to O&P professionals. Since our founding in 1917, we have worked diligently to establish ourselves as the voice for O&P businesses."
Amputee Coalition of America: Mission: "To reach out to people with limb loss, to educate and empower them to lead rich, productive lives, to advocate on their behalf, and to develop and disseminate the resources necessary to accomplish this."

Resource Centers

Amputation Prevention: Global Resource Center

"This internet site is dedicated to a global effort to prevent amputations in persons with diabetes and is a collaborative effort between Boehringer Mannheim and Eli Lilly and Company."

Amputee Resource Center

ARC's goals are to:

provide information about starting and maintaining a peer support program,
feature materials that support group leaders could use to educate themselves about the "care and feeding" of a support group,
provide information and topics that might be shared with their members at meetings, in newsletters, or as information sheets,
provide a book list to help support groups build their libraries,
provide information on how to subscribe to amputee listservs, and
provide links to selected amputation-related websites

Amputations

Organizations & Information

Resource Centers

Manufacturers of Prosthetic Devices

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