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Mechanical Engineering Students Develop Adaptive Tool for Prosthetic Users
November 17th 2025
Beaufort County Community College’s Mechanical Engineering Technology (MET) students completed an impressive project this fall that connected their technical training to real-world problem-solving. Under the guidance of lead instructor Matt Holliday and in collaboration with his mother's prosthetist, Shane Coltrain of Orthotics and Prosthetics East, the class designed and produced…
Current Trends and Developments in Orthotic & Prosthetic Rehabilitation
August 1st 2012
The majority of orthotic and prosthetic devices today are focused on helping people overcome deficiencies of the lower extremities- ankle-foot orthoses, below-knee and above-knee prosthetic limbs, and diabetic footwear being the most prevalent.
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Current Trends and Developments in Orthotic & Prosthetic Rehabilitation
March 1st 2012
The prosthetic socket, essential point of integration between human tissue and replacement limb, is most often also the place where degree of prosthetic sucess is defined.
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Current Trends and Developments in Orthotic & Prosthetic Rehabilitation
August 1st 2009
The diagnosis construction worker Kyle J., 38, received in mid-2008 was troubling: MRSA*, the antibiotic-resistant staph infection that can be fatal, had developed in an open sore on his left foot and spread up his leg.
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Current Trends and Developments in Orthotic & Prosthetic Rehabilitation
December 1st 2008
Welcome to the premiere issue of Orthotics & Prosthetics East News, a publication dedicated to informing area physicians, rehabilitation professionals, patents, and families if current developments in the O&P disciplines.
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