If O&P had a roster of unsung heroes, technicians would populate the top of the list. They spend much of their professional lives manipulating hazardous materials with hazardous tools, enduring heat, cacophony, and fumes to translate clinical prescriptions into life-enhancing, and sometimes life-saving devices. Some of the most creative and respected technicians have on-the-job training only-or as one technician who spoke to The O&P EDGE said dryly, “no, no formal training, just 40 years of experience”-while others are graduates of quality colleges; some are registered and some are not, but no matter what their professional status, they rarely receive the admiration and respect of patients who wear the devices they create. However, consumers, practitioners, and manufacturers all depend on them as essential links in the O&P manufacturing and clinical care chain.
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