Gait Symmetry and Lower-limb Dominance
Upper-limb asymmetry and limb dominance (handedness) are recognized as normal and taken into consideration when making O&P clinical recommendations. A...
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...
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...
The O&P Breakfast Club: How Teams and Tribes Impact Collaboration
In the 1985 movie The Breakfast Club, Brat Pack members Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and...
Emotions and Gait
Experienced O&P clinicians are skilled at identifying deviations from normal gait and recognizing the underlying neurological, musculoskeletal, and device-related causes...
What to Wear: Clinical Attire in O&P
Shawn Hempel/stock.adobe.com Physicians “must have a clean appearance, and wear good clothes” and “dress decorous and simple, not overelaborated, but...
Cross-Cultural Collaboration
Not long after starting in O&P education, I overheard a colleague from a Western country relating his experience teaching prosthetics...
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...
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