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This Corner features additional highlights from the recent AOPA meeting in Florida, information on an upcoming ISPO conference on Reaching Beyond Our Borders, and reviews a very provocative study from the UK suggesting that physical therapy treatment for low back pain did not improve measured outcomes.

All chapters from the Spanish language textbooks on Lower Limb Prosthetics and Orthotics have been posted, and remain available for downloading, along with the classic text from UCLA on Upper Limb Prostheses.

Thanks to the generosity of Sr. Alberto Castillo from Mexico City, the articles in this Corner will now be available in Spanish too. A brief biography is posted, listing just a few of Sr. Castillo's many accomplishments. Additional chapters from the texts on lower limb prosthetics and orthotics that have been translated into Spanish are also available for downloading.

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Table of Contents

• AOPA Assembly 2004
• Outcomes Studies: A Very Sharp, Two-Edged Sword
• Supporting P&O Rehabilitation in Other Countries

CPO Services Digital Reference Library

This month's Corner includes the next installment of uploads of chapters from the entire Spanish language texts on Lower Limb Orthoses and Lower Limb Prostheses, for downloading or printing. CPO Services is very pleased to be able to post electronic versions of texts used in the former WHO school in the Dominican Republic, with the kind permission of Sidney Fishman, PhD.

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

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Thank you.

--John Michael, CPO