Psychology and Behavioral Sciences in O&P, Yesterday and Today
The name Sidney Fishman should be familiar to anyone interested in the history of O&P in the United States. It...
Perspectives on Gait Assessment
A pediatric orthopedic surgeon who referred a patient for an AFO mentioned that prior to sending the patient to see...
Practitioners and Technicians: Beyond Hierarchy
Marv was the first technician I ever worked with. My father hired and trained him shortly after starting his O&P...
Expressive Prosthetic Design
 Image Credit: Yakobchuk Olena/stock.adobe.com Norbert Nathanson was born in 1926 without a right hand and with his feet not fully...
Cultural Humility, Understanding Differences
Many years ago, I heard a version of the following joke that plays on the reputations of European cultures: Heaven...
Let’s Talk About Hand Skills
A few years ago, my daughter sustained an injury while playing soccer and required a below-knee cast. The technician who...
Hope and Rehabilitation
In 1995, Christopher Reeve sustained a cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) that resulted in quadriplegia. Reeve was known to millions...
Advocating or Disrupting?
Image: Archivist/stock.adobe.com In August 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and 27 crew members of the ship Endurance began the Imperial Trans-Antarctic...
Social Distance, Disability, and Culture
The term social distancing came into common usage in the past 18 months for reasons familiar to all of us....
Everybody Hurts: ACE and Trauma-informed Care
In an article titled "What is Clinical Empathy?" Jodi Halpern, MD, PhD, relates the following story to demonstrate how...
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