OPGA adds 5th
Marlo Ortiz Socket Design Seminar
Well, it happened again! Thanks to an overwhelming response to the OPGA MAS socket design seminars to be held this fall on September 7-8, 10-11 and November 12-13, we had to add a fourth seminar for April 1-2, 2005. The April course only has a few spots left open, so we have added a 5th seminar for March 29-30, 2005. We have had over 130 practitioners expressing interest in this outstanding, innovative socket design and fully expect this additional seminar to fill up as well, so please call today and reserve your spot.
If you would like more information about the course, please contact me via email at jim.andreassen@vgm.com
Well, it happened again! Thanks to an overwhelming response to the OPGA MAS socket design seminars to be held this fall on September 7-8, 10-11 and November 12-13, we had to add a fourth seminar for April 1-2, 2005. The April course only has a few spots left open, so we have added a 5th seminar for March 29-30, 2005. We have had over 130 practitioners expressing interest in this outstanding, innovative socket design and fully expect this additional seminar to fill up as well, so please call today and reserve your spot.
Recently, OPGA has teamed with Marlo Ortiz, creator of the Marlo Ortiz Anatomical Socket (M.A.S.*) in order to make available this outstanding new socket design to the O&P profession on a wide-scale basis. An initial course was hosted in January by OPGA and O&P1 in Waterloo, IA. The course was an overwhelming success and all attendees agreed that the O&P profession and many transfemoral patients would benefit greatly from this new socket design. OPGA will be offering a two-day course to be held at O&P1 in Waterloo, IA and will be taught by Marlo Ortiz and John Michael so that all independent practitioners and their patients might benefit from this new design.
Two tiers of learning will be offered at the course:
* Tier I – “Hands-On” – Full two-day seminar, which includes
patient evaluation with casting, modifications, and two test sockets.
Attendee must provide own patient model and his/her travel arrangements
* Tier II – “Observation” – Full two-day seminar which
includes all course materials, observation of patient evaluation, but no hands-on participation
For those of you not familiar with the M.A.S.* socket, it is a revolutionary new socket design created and patented by Marlo Ortiz from Guadalajara, MX.
Marlo and his socket design were featured at the AAOP National Meeting in the Thranhardt lecture series and generated significant interest amongst the attending practioners. To read more about the socket design, read a recent article in the O&P Edge at
If you would like more information about the course, please contact me via email at jim.andreassen@vgm.com or call Kelly Weidman at 800-214-6742.
Jim Andreassen
President, OPGA
Phone: 800-214-6742
Fax: 888-449-0610
email: jim.andreassen@vgm.com
