This year Prosthetics and Orthotics Day 2024 is on Friday 6th September 2024. This is the 4th year British Association of Prosthetists and Orthotists (BAPO) are organising this awareness day.
Prosthetics and Orthotics Day aims to raise the profile of the two roles with both health and care professionals and the general public. The day will provide an opportunity for prosthetists and orthotists to celebrate their profession and the benefit these roles have for those patients who access the services they provide.
This year the theme is – Greener P&O – Sustainability in Prosthetics and Orthotics
Find out more on the BAPO website.
Check out our Prosthetics and Orthotics page here for more information.
Prosthetists Provide gait (walking) analysis and engineering solutions to service users with limb(s) loss. They are trained in mechanics, biomechanics, and material science along with anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology. They are able to design, provide and modify prostheses that replicate the structural or functional characteristics of a service user’s absent limb(s). They provide care to service users with congenital (from birth) limb loss, as well as those with limb loss due to conditions including diabetes, reduced vascularity, infection and trauma.
Orthotists Provide gait (walking) analysis and engineering solutions to service users with problems of the neuro, muscular and skeletal systems. They consider a range of factors when assessing service users, including mechanics, biomechanics, material science, anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology. They design and provide orthoses that modify the structural or functional characteristics of a service user’s neuro, muscular and skeletal systems, enabling them to mobilise, eliminate gait deviations (improve walking), reduce falls, reduce pain, prevent and facilitate healing of ulcers and prevent physical deformities from progressing.
Access the Standard and Assessment Plan documents, along with other useful resources here.