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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Rehabilitation for Individuals with Lower Limb Amputation (NA1847)


Author(s): Department of Veterans Affairs - Department of Defense


Pre-Approved for: CA BRN, CCM, CDMS, CE Broker Provider, CLCP, CNLCP, COHN/COHN-S, COPS-KT, CRCC, CRRN, CVRP, Delaware BON, GA-SBWC, RNs, VRA-Canada


Credit Hours: 9


CCM Credit Hours: 5


CDMS Credit Hours: 5


Course Format

This course is online. All course material is available online and is accessible immediately after purchase from your account homepage. Certificate of Completion is available immediately upon passing the exam.

Course Overview

This course is the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense’s Clinical Practice Guideline for Rehabilitation of Individuals with Lower Limb Amputation.

This CPG is intended to provide healthcare providers with a framework by which to evaluate, treat, and manage the individual needs and preferences of patients with lower limb amputation (LLA), thereby leading to improved clinical outcomes.



Course Objectives

  1. Assess the patient's condition and in collaboration with the patient, determine the most appropriate rehabilitation plan.

  2. Optimize each individual's functional independence, health outcomes, and quality of life.

  3. Minimize preventable complications and morbidity.

  4. Emphasize the use of patient-centered care.

Course Outline

  1. I. Introduction

  2. II. Recommendations

  3. III. Background

  4. IV. About this Clinical Practice Guideline

  5. V. Guideline Work Group

  6. VI. Algorithm

  7. VII. Discussion of Recommendations

  8. VIII. Knowledge Gaps and Recommended Research

  9. Appendix A: Evidence Review Methodology

  10. Appendix B: Evidence Table

  11. Appendix C: 2007 Recommendation Categorization Table

  12. Appendix D: Participant List

  13. Appendix E: Patient Focus Group Methods and Findings

  14. Appendix F: Literature Review Search terms and Strategy

  15. Appendix G: Abbreviation List

  16. References

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Customer Testimonial

I purchased the course bundle and ended up with a number of topic areas I was quite familiar with. This was an area of weakness for me and was very beneficial. I was really impressed with the depth and breadth of the information, not to mention learning more about the process mapping. I can see multiple applications for the same logic across conditions. Fantastic course! Thank you for putting it all together.
Joe E.