Bob is Thriving After Treatment at Northwest Transitions Inpatient Rehabilitation
2/6/2026
“The right exercises, the right equipment, and the right attitude”
“I don’t know what would have happened to me without Northwest Transitions,” says Bob.
Bob is especially familiar with life and recovery at Northwest Transitions Inpatient Rehabilitation – he spent a lengthy time there after experiencing unexpected complications related to his knee replacement surgery. After 13 surgeries in less than two years, Bob lost his leg above the knee.
While he’s now able to make jokes about half-price pedicures, and his prosthetic leg has a sticker reading, “just a flesh wound,” Bob is still adjusting to his new normal.
“Northwest Transitions is the best place to be if you have a problem like mine,” he says. “The care, compassion, and professionalism I received were stellar. The team pushed me just the right amount – and I’m not a very good patient, so they were great about working around that. They provided me with the right exercises, the right equipment, and the right attitude. It’s an amazing, amazing place.”
Bob also worked hard to graduate from Northwest Transitions’ new prosthetics training program, which features intensive physical and occupational therapy to help patients who have lost limbs get the best functionality from their prosthetics.
“Learning to walk again isn’t easy,” he says. “It’s learning something you learned, but never knew you learned – you were a kid.”
When Bob completed the prosthetics program with the help of the Northwest Transitions team, many of them were there to wish him well as he walked out of the building on his own, assisted only by a walker.
Congratulations to Bob on his new, more mobile life – and thanks to everyone at Transitions for their outstanding, knowledgeable care!
For more information about the prosthetics training program, or to arrange a tour of the facility, call (520) 403-2563 or visit https://www.healthiertucson.com/inpatient-rehabilitation-services.
Bob and the Northwest Transitions team celebrates his graduation from the Prosthetics Program
Bob and Physical Therapist, Jasmine
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