Websites/Support Groups

There are many support groups and websites for people with upper limb loss and hand/arm transplants: 

• Amputee Coalition – Support Group Network

  • Search and find support groups throughout the U.S. for people living with limb loss.

• Reddit (r/amputee) – “Support for everyone affected by amputation”

• AMPOWER

• North American One-Armed Golfers Association

• The Amputee Discussion and Support Forum

• Voice of VCA Patients

• Facebook communities:

  • Skills for Life group for people with bilateral limb loss

  • The Quad Squad group for quadruple amputees

  • Amputee Help & Support Line 

  • Amputee Peer and Support Group

• UNOS Transplant Living: Vascular Composite Allografts

• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) 

  • Information about hand/arm transplant on organdonor.gov 

• Kleinert Kutz Hand Care Center – Hand Transplants: Composite Tissue Allotransplantation

• Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors – Hand Transplantation
  

Hospital Hand/Arm Transplant Programs:

• Boston Children’s Hospital – Hand Transplant Program

• Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Hand and Arm Transplant Surgery

• Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Hand Transplantation Program

• Cleveland Clinic – Center for Reconstructive Transplantation

• Duke University – Hand Transplant

• Emory University’s First Hand Transplant

• Johns Hopkins Medicine – Human Upper Extremity Allotransplantation

• Mayo Clinic – Hand Transplant Center

• Penn Medicine Hand Transplant Program

• UCLA Medical Center – Hand Transplant

• University of Michigan – Hand Transplant Physicians

• University of Washington Medical Center – Transplant Services

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