Occupational Therapy and Advanced Upper Extremity Prosthetics

As with most aspects of occupational therapy treatment, prosthetics for persons with upper extremity amputations have undergone vast advances due to technological improvements. Around 1.6 million people live with limb loss in the United States, and this number is expected to rise to 3.6 million by 2050. Traumas related to burns, violence, accidents at work, and war-related traumas are the major contributors of upper limb amputations (Orr et al., 2018).