Make the connection

 

The following links will connect you to a wealth of charities and organisations that can support you, whatever the orthotic and prosthetic need or enquiry.

 

Patient organisations – prosthetics

• Reach (The Association for Children with Hand or Arm Deficiency): www.reach.org.uk
• Steps (supporting children and adults with lower limb condition): www.steps-charity.org.uk
• Limb Loss Information Centre: www.limblossinformationcentre.com
• BLESMA (British Limbless Ex-Service Men's Association): www.blesma.org
• Limbless Association: www.limbless-association.org
• National Amputee Statistical Database: www.nasdab.co.uk
• Amputee Coalition of America: www.amputee-coalition.org
• Peggy and Friends: www.peggyandfriends.org
• Douglas Bader Foundation: www.douglasbaderfoundation.co.uk
• Amputee News (USA): www.amputeenews.com

 

Patient organisations – orthotics

• CMT (Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease): www.cmt.org.uk
• The Bobath Centre (for Cerebral Palsy): www.bobath.org.uk
• Scope (Cerebral Palsy): www.scope.org.uk
• British Polio Fellowship: www.britishpolio.org.uk
• Different Strokes (charity for younger stroke survivors): www.differentstrokes.co.uk
• Headway (supporting people a brain injury and their carers): www.headway.org.uk
• Multiple Sclerosis Trust: www.mstrust.org.uk
• Multiple Sclerosis Society: www.mssociety.org.uk
• Muscular Dystrophy Campaign: www.muscular-dystrophy.org
• The Neuropathy Trust: www.neurocentre.com
• The Stroke Association: www.stroke.org.uk
• HemiHelp (for people with hemiplegia and their families): www.hemihelp.org.uk
• Meningitis Trust: www.meningitis-trust.org
• Guillain-Barre Syndrome Support Group: www.gbs.org.uk
• CP Sport England & Wales: www.cpsport.org
• Harry’s Hemi: www.harryshemi.com

 

Component Manufacturers and Commercial Organisations

• Otto Bock: www.ottobock.com
• Ossur: www.ossur.com
• Blatchford: www.blatchford.co.uk
• Touch Bionics (i-Limb): www.touchbionics.com
• Odstock Medical: www.odstockmedical.com

 

Professional Bodies

• British Association of Prosthetists and Orthotists: www.bapo.com
• International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics: www.ispo.org.uk
• American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists: www.oandp.org
• American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association: www.aopanet.org
• British Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Amputee Rehabilitation: www.bacpar.org.uk

 

Legal bodies and professionals

• The Limb Loss Legal Panel: www.limblesslegalpanel.co.uk
• The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers: www.apil.org.uk
• Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA): www.avma.org.uk
• The Motor Accident Solicitors Society: www.mass.org.uk
• Irwin Mitchell Solicitors: www.irwinmitchell.com
• Pannone Solicitors: www.pannone.com
• Leigh Day & Co Solicitors: www.leighday.co.uk
• Alexander Harris Solicitors: www.alexanderharris.co.uk
• Russell Jones and Walker Solicitors: www.rjw.co.uk
• EPR Law News: www.eprlawnews.com
• Shoosmiths: www.shoosmiths-personal-injury-solicitors.co.uk
• UK Lawyers & Solicitors: www.lawyer-solicitors-uk.co.uk
• Clark Willmott : www.cwseriousinjury.co.uk

 

Inspiration

• Heather Mills: www.heathermills.org
• Tilly Lockey: www.givetillyahand.com
• Marc Woods: www.marcwoods.com
• Megan Shand: www.realinspiration.com.au
• Leanne Gros: www.leanneschairworkout.com
• Aimee Mullins: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qec520CLyhk
• Lydia Cross: www.lydiacross.co.uk
• Rasika’s Story: www.bridge2srilanka.com
• Candace Carnham: www.candacecarnahan.com