Orthotic Prosthetic Technician Career Facts
Orthotics is the design and fabrication of braces and strengthening devices for patients with disabling conditions of the limbs or spine (such devices are technically called orthosis). Those requiring such devices include people with limbs or spines that have been affected by polio, stroke, muscular dystrophy, spinal cord injury, congenital musculoskeletal disorders, fractures or other orthopedic impairment.
Prosthetists are practitioners who design, fabricate and fit artificial limbs for patients who are missing part of all of their own limbs. The end goal of the prosthetist is a prosthesis, or artificial limb, that patients find functional, comfortable and aesthetically acceptable.
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