Shop Talk

I'm not a people person. I've always preferred the quiet companionship of a room full of tools, but children are...

Part 3: How to Make Modifications to a Plaster Cast In "The Art of Mold Modification" (The O&P EDGE, September...

How to Set Up Proper Alignment They're coming. Scanning tools, software, and milling machines will one day be able to...

As a former steelworker, I see great similarity between building an office tower and fabricating a KAFO. Regardless of the...

For five weeks this summer, we were lucky enough to have an intern from one of the O&P technical education...

Elevated vacuum sockets are a fabulous innovation. The limb's weight bearing force is evenly distributed throughout the total surface of...

Not all of my ideas are good ones, and neither are yours, but you know what? That's not necessarily a...

There are many different ways to decorate a prosthetic socket, such as applying stickers, doing water transfer, and airbrushing. Of...

A practitioner can spend hours fine-tuning the alignment of a lower-limb prosthesis. A technician transferring this alignment can lose it...

Learning how other technicians fabricate is always exciting. You get to see their tricks-of-the-trade and apply them to your own...