Promoting Resilience in Pediatric Patients
Ten years ago, “Jackson Stone’s Brave Decision to Amputate His Foot” was uploaded to YouTube.1 The video includes interviews with...
Ten years ago, “Jackson Stone’s Brave Decision to Amputate His Foot” was uploaded to YouTube.1 The video includes interviews with...
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...
A team of researchers set out to develop and test a patient decision aid (PDA) prototype for prosthetists and new...
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