Spanish Language P&O Texts

Understanding the fundamental principles that guide prosthetic and orthotic practice is one of the most important skills for any practitioner to master. CPO Services is very pleased to be able to post electronic versions of two Spanish language texts with the kind permission of Sidney Fishman, PhD., who headed the P&O program at New York University for many years.

Dr. Fishman has generously permitted the posting of the entire Spanish language texts on Lower Limb Orthoses and Lower Limb Prostheses, where they can be read, downloaded, or printed without charge - to educate Spanish-speaking prosthetists, orthotists, and other members of the rehabilitation team with an interest in our field. CPO Services has donated the costs of converting these texts into electronic PDF format, and will post one new section of each text every month.

During the period that NYU, UCLA, and NWU were offering the very popular short-term, upgrading courses in prosthetics and orthotics in the United States, NYU was invited to offer a number of similar courses in Europe and Asia. The most extensive of these were held in Finland, Israel, India, Portugal, and Spain. It was the courses in Spain in Lower-Limb Prosthetics that stimulated the excellent translation of the NYU text into Spanish through the generous voluntary efforts of Dr. Pedro Prim of Madrid.

These translations also served as the text for the World Rehabilitation Fund's long-term degree program in prosthetics and orthotics in the Dominican Republic as well as other centers. Although these translated text have not been updated, the fundamental principles and practices described are still relevant and offer an excellent foundation for interested practitioners, who can apply then these fundamental concepts using the materials and components available locally.

We hope that posting these texts will assist colleagues throughout the world who want to advance their clinical knowledge.

Special thanks to P&O Resident, Marcus Boren, for converting the native PDF files using Optical Character Recognition software that reduces the file size significantly and also permits word searches of the text.

NOTE: Due to the size of these files, it may take many minutes to download each section. To read these files, the Adobe Acrobat Reader must be installed. This program can be downloaded for free at:http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

• Ortesica Del Miembro Inferior (Lower Limb Orthoses) Table of Contents
• Protesica Del Miembro Inferior (Lower Limb Prostheses) Table of Contents

Reader Comments: Read all user comments Texts John, I am putting together a list of texts for a reference library related to O&P. I naturally will include the Atlas' of Prosthetics and Orthotics. I would like to know if you or anyone else has a recommended list I could review so that ... read more - Karl Lindborg   11/26/2001 Re: Texts Maybe I will update my list for future Corner, as many of our texts go out of print quickly. My advice is to buy P&O texts as soon as they appear since they may be unavailablethe next time you think of it. I usually suggest: Atkins DJ, M... read more - John Michael CPO   11/26/2001 Foro sobre la Educación en O y P en America Latina. Ciudad de México 10 Noviembre 2001. Estimado John Michael C.P.O.: La Sociedad Mexicana de Ortesistas y Protesistas A.C., realizará el día 8 de Diciembre un "Foro sobre la Educacion en O y P, en América Latina", con la participación del ... read more - Alberto E. Castillo Moreno O.P.   11/10/2001 Re: Foro sobre la Educación en O y P en America Latina. Thanks Alberto- It will be good to see Heinz Trebbin again, and to participate along with Dr. Gomez in a forum on P&O Education in Latin America next month. The school in El Salvador is a tremendous resource, and I am confident that we ca... read more - John Michael CPO   11/13/2001 congratulation and thanks Hi! John. Realy make me happy this web site. I have to thanks to everybody. With the Spanish section more people will be abilable to get update in this OandP field. I will see you on December in Mexico. With my Best Regards. Juan ... read more - Juan Carlos Camacho   11/9/2001 Re: congratulation and thanks Buenos dias, Juan- I'm looking forward to the trip to Mexico City in honor of your successful year as the President of SMOPAC and working on my lecture now. OANDP.COM has become the best portal for English language information on P I hop... read more - John Michael CPO   11/13/2001 Collaborative Transhumeral Fitting Hi John, I'm curious to know if the Otto Bock 12K50 ErgoArm with Electric Lock would be have been an option for Lloyd if the elblow was available at fitting. Thanks kindly, and I still enjoy your articles, even though I don't always respon... read more - Fram Sethna   11/6/2001 Re: Collaborative Transhumeral Fitting Hi Fram- I replied earlier but apparently forgot to save before exiting; sorry! The AFB electrolock wouldn't help Lloyd because his parasthesias were triggered by ANY force near his axilla; even a chest strap to augment the roll-on slee... read more - John Michael CPO   11/13/2001 About oandp.com traducido al español. Ciudad de México a 2 de Noviembre, 2001 Estimados John Michael C.P.O. y Jonathan Shinn: hace unos días enviamos las siguientes páginas traducidas al Español: "What is oandp.com?", "Become a Registered User", "Content Advisory Board", Adve... read more - Alberto E. Castillo Moreno O.P.   11/3/2001 Re: About oandp.com traducido al español. Thanks Alberto- I know Jon has received the files and plans to upload them. I've asked him to estimate when that will happen. --John Michael - John Michael CPO   11/4/2001