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This New Year begins with the final installment from the series of reports from the AOPA Assembly in Las Vegas with the last of the educational sessions. It continues with a discussion of the importance of looking for patient-oriented evidence when reviewing scientific articles and finishes by noting the results of a recent retrospective study investigating evidence-based screening of potential candidates for lower limb prostheses.

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

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

• American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association Assembly 2005, Part Three
• Writing an Evidence Based Clinical Review Article: Why POEMs Are Better Than DOEs
• Evidence Based Medicine: Preoperative Prediction of Failure to Use a Prosthesis

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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--John Michael, CPO