No, Thomas Current, the fault is not in you but in the ‘stars’. I wince and correct a lot of things
I encounter. The problem is that the web is the ‘everyman’s’ mode and because standards of teaching
of our language have deteriorated almost anything goes. A prosthetic device, aka a prosthesis
(ditto for orthoses) is so pleasant to encounter…..indicating a literate person. Ah me!! George
B.
Thomas Current wrote:
> Just taking a poll. How many of you are bothered by the massive inapproprate use of the term
> orthotic to describe an orthosis. The last time I checked my text books I could not find an
> orthotic anywhere. Now I have recently begun to find PT and Dr’s using the term prosthetic to
> describe an artifical limb. If you are like me I find myself correcting this poor use of english
> all the time. Am I over reacting?
>
> Tom Current, CPO
