What Makes a Multidisciplinary Team Successful?

Highly specialized multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams that support limb-loss patients are called upon to develop and amplify their skill sets to collaborate with medical partners who use advanced techniques like upper-limb reconstruction, osseointegration, and more. To achieve best outcomes for their patients, here’s what some surgeons, therapists, and prosthetists recommended.

Omri Ayalon, MD, says, “The team members we have [in the Center for Amputation Reconstruction  clinic] are really the gems that make everything work. They’re people who are passionate about taking care of individuals with limb loss, and specifically who are experts in their fields. Our clinic takes care of people with upper- and lower-extremity limb loss, so as such we have team members who have dedicated their careers to this population. We couldn’t have the success that we’re having without our team. Recruiting these individuals was probably the most important thing that Dr. [Jacques] Hacquebord and myself have done.”