CENTERPEDES

A Prosthetist is a healthcare professional with overall responsibly of Prosthetics treatment, who can supervise and mentor the practice of other personnel. They are clinicians trained to assess the needs of the user, prescribe treatment, determine the precise technical specifications of prosthesis and Orthosis, take measurements and image of body segments, prepare model of the evaluation, fit devices and evaluate treatment outcome.

A prosthetist is a person who has been qualified and certified to treat a person by using prostheses to residual limbs of the upper and lower extremities. The fitting of lower extremity

                prostheses, for example, involves making a socket that fits the residuum as a first

                         step. The socket is usually manufactured by glass or carbon fiber infused with 

                            acrylic resin or from thermoplastics over a positive model of the residuum.

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                                   a prosthetist may have been certified by either the American Board of 

                                  Certification in Orthotics, Prosthetics and Pedorthics (ABC) or by the Board o                                  of Certification/Accreditation (BOC). The ABC-certified prosthetist using 

                                      the credential (CP) is a prosthetist who has passed the psychometrically

                                         validated certification standards and met the established educational

                                             criteria of The American Board for Certification in Orthotics,

                                             Prosthetics and Pedorthics, Inc. and maintains certification through

                                                       mandatory continuing education program and adherence to

                                                           the Code of Professional Responsibility. The BOC-certified  

                                                               prosthetist using the credential (BOCP)is a prosthetist

                                                                 who is recognized professionally as having completed a

                                                             rigorous education and training program followed by      

                                                         passing of 3 exams (written, practical and clinical simulation)

                                                          and who maintains certification through mandatory              

                                                           continuing education