Military in-Step Now Available on ACA Website

In partnership with the United States Army Patient Care program, the Amputee Coalition of America (ACA) has published Military in-Step , a full-color, 98-page publication aimed at meeting the informational needs of returning military personnel with service-related amputations, the ACA announced.

Military in-Step is based on ACA's award-winning publication First Step: A Guide for Adapting to Limb Loss , focusing on the new amputee, the ACA noted. The publication includes seven sections:

The Military Amputee Caring for Yourself After Amputation The Prosthesis and Its Components The Rehabilitation Process Common Problems The Military Benefits System Sports and Recreation "This publication contains over 40 articles, first-person stories, and vignettes that help to show new military amputees that they can rebuild their lives, just as Army Sgt Garth Stewart and Army SFC Scott Barkalow have, and maybe even become active duty personnel again, just as Army SSG Josh Olsen has," said ACA Marketing/Outreach Coordinator Meredith P. Goins.

Hard copies are only available to military personnel through Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington DC, or Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, according to the ACA. However, this publication is now available to all as a PDF download through the ACA's website at www.amputee-coalition.org/military-instep/index.html , the ACA noted.

Through its ongoing relationship with Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the ACA has worked on several projects designed to educate healthcare professionals and the servicemen and women they care for that have lost limbs through trauma in conflicts abroad, accidents, or disease, Goins said.

ACA President and CEO Paddy Rossbach, RN, who serves as a member of the Defense Health Board Panel on the care of individuals with amputation and/or functional limb loss, said, "Designing and developing Military in-Step has been a large part of this ongoing partnership to provide better information about limb loss to injured servicemen and women."

In August 2002, approximately 100 military medical personnel, including doctors, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, and prosthetists, attended a full-day seminar at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). Rossbach, ACA Medical Director Douglas Smith, MD, and others presented an "Overview of Care for Amputees." This seminar was followed in 2003 and again in 2004 by programs designed to update WRAMC nurses and VA healthcare providers on current practices in amputee care.

Pat Isenberg, MS, ACA chief operating officer and a master trainer, has also conducted peer visitation training programs at WRAMC to certify individuals to conduct peer visits to injured military personnel. Currently, there are approximately 250 visits per month to military amputees completed by 70 certified military peer visitors, according to the ACA.

Said Rossbach, "While the Amputee Patient Care Program focuses on the full spectrum of care and management for the young, active, traumatic amputee patient, the ACA focuses on the empowerment of all amputees through education, support, and advocacy."

For more information, phone 888.AMP/KNOW (888.267.5669), e-mail: acainfo@amputee-coalition.org; www.amputee-coalition.org

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