Many people struggle to cope with the loss of a limb and are left with a sense of bereavement.
The Disablement Services Centre – now the Specialist Mobility Rehabilitation Centre – helps them come to terms with it and rebuild their lives.
It provides everything from counselling post amputation to the measuring, fitting and testing of artificial limbs.
The centre, which has held a Charter Mark since the scheme's launch in 1992, provides specialist wheelchair and artificial limb services throughout Lancashire.
Its new home is the ground floor of the Preston Business Centre and features dedicated consultation areas, including upper and lower limb paediatric treatment rooms, assessment rooms for wheelchair and specialist seating clinics and a resource room for training
purposes.
Around 70 staff have transferred from the Royal Preston Hospital to the new purpose designed facility.
Dr Fergus Jepson, rehabilitation medicine consultant at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, says: "The centre features a host of new and improved facilities for patients.
"It has been purposely designed to cater for people with a range of mobility problems, including young children. Patients will have access to a range of services."
Rory Davies, head of services at the centre, says: "We want to do
everything possible to allow patients and their families the highest level of functionality and independence."
Learn more about the work of the Disablement Services Centre in Thursday's LEP.
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