Diane J. Atkins, OTR/L, is an internationally recognized Occupational Therapist specializing in Upper Limb Amputee Rehabilitation. Diane has over 40 years of extensive clinical experience with upper limb amputees devoted to the evaluation, treatment, prosthetic training and outcomes of children and adults with upper limb loss. She has co-edited and authored 2 texts on these subjects.
Diane has worked with over 2,000 children and adults with amputations and has lectured extensively throughout the US and abroad in areas relating to the evaluation, treatment, training, and functional outcomes of individuals with unilateral and bilateral upper limb loss. She has extensive teaching experience to therapists, physicians and prosthetists.
Diane is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. She has been involved in many grants and research activities sponsored by the National Institute of Health, the Veterans Administration and NASA. In advance of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, she was asked by the United States Surgeon General to present courses for the clinical rehabilitation teams at Walter Reed and Brooke Army Medical Centers regarding the management and care of soldiers who had sustained upper limb loss.
Litigation Support - The ideal client would be anyone who is seeking to better understand the impact of upper limb loss as it relates to overall functional independence, prosthetic componentry and costs, and knowledge of outcomes that may be achieved.
Areas of Expertise:
- Comprehensive Management of the Upper Limb Amputee with Specific Expertise in Amputee Evaluation
- Pre and Post prosthetic Amputation Management
- Upper Extremity Prosthetic Componentry
- Prosthetic Training
- Functional Outcomes
- Cost Analysis for the Upper Extremity Amputee
- Access to State-of-the Art Providers of Amputee Surgical and Rehabilitation Care
Diane Atkins, OTR, et al
This is the only comprehensive guide to the surgery, prosthetic fitting, and rehabilitation of individuals sustaining an arm amputation. It incorporates the major advances in prosthetics and rehabilitation that have occurred in recent years, and will improve the quality of service and the outcomes for those who sustain an arm amputation.
Diane Atkins, OTR, et al
This work is the first comprehensive guide to the rehabilitation of the upper limb amputee with the use of prostheses. The text covers the use of body powered as well as myoelectric prostheses in both children and adults. The book serves as a source book for clinical procedures as well as a reference work for assesssing the value of the various prosthetic devices.
