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A Community Re-Integration Manual For Individuals With Amputations: Preparing For The Paralympics, Carmen Schempp
A Community Re-Integration Manual For Individuals With Amputations: Preparing For The Paralympics, Carmen Schempp
Occupational Therapy Capstones
Being an athlete with an injury is difficult, but an amputation poses even more challenges to one's life dreams for sports competition. This scholarly project focused on advancing an athlete's community re-integration, specifically back into the sporting community. Presently, there is a gap in existing occupational therapy services for persons with amputations between the completion of inpatient rehabilitation and the return to full community re-integration, particularly for the sports competitor. This scholarly project product is a manual of sequential therapeutic activities for athletes who have the goal of returning to the occupation of sports participation. This product is intended to …