RESOURCES
Whether you choose to download, view, share, or sign up, we have something for you.
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Hands Free
A Beginners Guide for Adaptive Equipment and Helpful Gadgets
Browse an up-to-date collection of tools that make the everyday easier.
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YouTube
Our YouTube channel has dozens of great how-tos, conversations, and event videos. Plus, you can explore other channels we recommend. Have a question? This is a great place to check!
Newsletters
Our monthly updates highlight community members and relevant resources and education for our community. Subscribe now, and browse our archives to read your favorites.
Our public Facebook page can keep you up to the minute. Or, if you are living without both hands or arms, we host a private Facebook group that you can request to join.
Workshop Recordings
If you would like a recording of previous workshops, they are available for purchase online. Our virtual meeting, Skills for LIfe 5 1/2, is available free of charge to those with limb loss or for a small donation if you are a clinician. e available to purchase online. Contact us for more details.
Printable Brochure
We want to be sure everyone interested knows about Enhancing Skills for LIfe. Please help us spread the word and download and share this printable brochure. People living with upper limb difference, prosthetists, therapists, case managers, medical device professionals -- anyone who would find ESFL useful.
Annual Meeting
We value being an open book, and every year we we host an annual meeting to share ESFL outcomes and priorities. Our Board ensures our resources are used well and that our mission is aligned with our goals, setting the path for the future. Other copies are available by contacting us.
To make it easy to connect, ESFL maintains a presence on several sites, including Instagram. Follow us, and if you have a great story, photo, or video to share, we'd love to hear from you!
The ESFL LinkedIn page is a good way to stay up to date on the latest events and resources, with a focus on clinically-relevant content and connections. We welcome you to share, comment, and suggest content that advances support of thoe with bilateral upper limb difference.
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Insurance Advocacy
If you have insurance questions, download 8 Tips for Advocating for Insurance Coverage for Amputees. This guide was created by Scott Zwiegel to help untangle the complexity of getting coverage for a prosthetic device.
Makerspace Project
TikTok
TikTok has energizing, interesting, unique content, often not found anywhere else. Let us know if you have a topic you're interested in, tag us, or share an idea for a video to create.
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Join in the community and talk on X. Share your ideas and questions, starting conversations that range widely.
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Survey: Prosthetic Function
Small-Scale Survey of Bilateral Upper-Limb Loss Individuals. This intriguing study explored prosthetic function in 28 people. Author Harold Sears is an industry expert, and notes no outcomes were significant statistically, except the use of the dominant side prosthesis, which was three times higher than the nondominant side usage. Sears discusses his publication on this AAOP podcast.
Questions
As we create new connections and content, your opinion matters. Please let us know what you find valuable and what you would like to learn more about.
