When looking at the finished products fabricated in your facility, can you tell one technician's work from another's? Do you...
Read moreIf the facility at which you work is like most others, it probably owns multiple cast saws and there are...
Read moreOne difficult patient presentation many O&P practitioners have encountered is severe genu recurvatum of 15-30 degrees with a lateral rotational...
Read moreI imagine that many of us do not enjoy the process of riveting metal uprights onto KAFOs or the occasional...
Read moreModifying the plaster model of an AFO is not difficult, and since AFOs are the most common device fabricated in...
Read moreI use staples—it's true. And I have for years. One of the first tasks I was entrusted with in my...
Read moreIn the April 2011 issue of The O&P EDGE, I wrote an article describing the technical process of using socks...
Read moreThere are a lot of different interfaces for prostheses, ranging from the classic Pelite liner to gel liners to flexible...
Read moreAlmost every time I give an O&P fabrication presentation someone says, "I hate metal work." Because many of the technicians...
Read moreGraves discusses Dudley's treatment while holding the steer's completed prosthesis. To say that I've had an interesting career path is...
Read moreUsing a lower-limb prosthetic device can lead to increased cognitive demands, and since measuring cognitive load objectively can be challenging,...
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