Moving beyond Disability was the theme of the 12th World Congress of the International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics. This paper is a reflection of one of the keynote lectures discussing the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Multicultural aspects in disability and sexuality in amputees will be discussed within the ICF perspective. Finally, Interne...

A CAD (computer aided design) analysis software package (CADVIEW) was designed for use with prosthetic and orthotic CAD CAM (computer aided design/computer aided manufacture) systems. Using the Microsoft Windows 3.1 environment, CADVIEW provides a series of anatomical shape viewing and analysis tools. These tools include simultaneous display of multiple sockets and multiple views, two dimension...

This letter addresses the following sentence in the “Mobility redux: PostWorld War II prosthetics and functional aids for veterans, 1945 to 2010” editorial that appeared in JRRD, Volume 48, Number 2. The sentence on page xv, second column: “Early testing and rigorous subject feedback clearly showed that DEKA II’s first active socket design was not what patients wanted or needed.” is not accurat...

BACKGROUND Maintaining and improving the quality of prosthetics and orthotics education at the Tanzania Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists is essential for the provision of appropriate prosthetics and orthotics services in African countries. OBJECTIVES To describe how Tanzanian and Malawian graduates' of the Diploma in Orthopaedic Technology perceive their education and how it coul...

INTRODUCTION Over the past ten years, the Prosthetics Clinical Services Department of the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago has treated thirty-six (36) persons with bilateral arm amputations. Of these, twenty-three had sustained high-level bilateral limb loss, High-level is defined as the absence of a functional physiological elbow joint In some cases the anatomical elbow is present, but the ...