How do they match: Orthotists and Prosthetists

  • Design, measure, fit, and adapt orthopedic braces, appliances or prostheses, such as limbs or facial parts for patients with disabling conditions.

  • Design orthopedic and prosthetic devices, based on physicians' prescriptions and examination and measurement of patients.
  • Construct and fabricate appliances, or supervise others constructing the appliances.
  • Confer with physicians to formulate specifications and prescriptions for orthopedic or prosthetic devices.
  • Make and modify plaster casts of areas to be fitted with prostheses or orthoses to guide the device construction process.
  • Publish research findings or present them at conferences and seminars.
  • Research new ways to construct and use orthopedic and prosthetic devices.
  • Select materials and components to be used, based on device design.

  • Design medical devices or appliances.
  • Present medical research reports.