MPO 5110 Intro Prosthetics & Orthotics
Introduction to Prosthetics & Orthotics (2). This course provides an overview of the fundamental concepts that orthotics and prosthetics are founded on. The purpose of the course is to provide the student with a base
knowledge that the subsequent clinical courses can build upon. The course covers: professional identity, terminology, history, scope of practice, materials, fabrication processes, component identification, a survey of common pathologies, basic clinical problem solving, orthosis and prosthesis classification and basic biomechanical principles. In addition, students will be introduced to basic research formulation through reading, processing, and discussion of relevant journal articles to the field of prosthetics and orthotics