The Virtue of Failure
Not all of my ideas are good ones, and neither are yours, but you know what? That's not necessarily a ...
Tag: Shop Talk
How to Laminate Sockets
There are many different ways to decorate a prosthetic socket, such as applying stickers, doing water transfer, and airbrushing. Of ...
How to Do an Alignment Transfer
A practitioner can spend hours fine-tuning the alignment of a lower-limb prosthesis. A technician transferring this alignment can lose it ...
How to Do Ply Reductions Using Vacuum
Learning how other technicians fabricate is always exciting. You get to see their tricks-of-the-trade and apply them to your own ...
Whatever Happened to TPE?
Remember TPE (thermoplastic elastomer)? I first heard about it when I read an article in 1990 by Ron Sutton, BSE, ...
How We Learn
There are a lot of theories about how people learn. For example, some educators believe that there are three different ...
I’m a Technician, Not a Magician
The phrase "work your magic" is both a compliment and a curse. On one hand, it is a tremendous vote ...
A New Approach to Sealing Thermoplastic Edges
A technical challenge solved by identifying a thermal window. Sealing thermoplastic edges simply and smoothly in a way that adds ...
Making Pre-Preg Look Pretty
It's been said that America's favorite color is shiny, and I agree. Pre-preg is great. Really, it's a wonderful material—high ...
Technician Credentialing: A Gateway to Opportunity
Wickman Welcome to the fork in the road—this is when we decide how the future unfolds. Over the past year ...
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