What is known of this topic? There appears to be no academic literature on travelling with a prosthetic limb in any field, including travel medicine. What does this paper add? This paper alerts to the challenges amputees face when travelling and provides background information for suggestions for pertinent travel health advice.

What further research is needed? Without current scientific evidence, countless topics invite investigation, including travelling amputees’ perceptions and coping mechanisms with barriers and concerns, practical aspect of travel and transport, feasible tourist activities, stump and prosthesis care, and self-management, to name but a few. Clinicians’ experiences with amputees and advice given are yet unknown.