Grading, Assessment, and Motivation to Learn
When I became a prosthetics instructor after more than 20 years in clinical practice, I quickly encountered what I came...
When I became a prosthetics instructor after more than 20 years in clinical practice, I quickly encountered what I came...
In the 1985 movie The Breakfast Club, Brat Pack members Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and...
Experienced O&P clinicians are skilled at identifying deviations from normal gait and recognizing the underlying neurological, musculoskeletal, and device-related causes...
Shawn Hempel/stock.adobe.com Physicians “must have a clean appearance, and wear good clothes” and “dress decorous and simple, not overelaborated, but...
Not long after starting in O&P education, I overheard a colleague from a Western country relating his experience teaching prosthetics...
The name Sidney Fishman should be familiar to anyone interested in the history of O&P in the United States. It...
A pediatric orthopedic surgeon who referred a patient for an AFO mentioned that prior to sending the patient to see...
Marv was the first technician I ever worked with. My father hired and trained him shortly after starting his O&P...
Image Credit: Yakobchuk Olena/stock.adobe.com Norbert Nathanson was born in 1926 without a right hand and with his feet not fully...
Many years ago, I heard a version of the following joke that plays on the reputations of European cultures: Heaven...
The Orthotics and Prosthetics Foundation for Education and Research (the O&P Foundation) is accepting applications for the 2024 Chester Haddan...
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