OPGA adds 5th Marlo Ortiz Socket Design Seminar

OPGA adds 5th Marlo Ortiz Socket Design Seminar

Jim Andreassen

6/25/2004

OPGA adds 5th
Marlo Ortiz Socket Design Seminar



Well, it happened again! Thanks to an overwhelming response to the OPGA MAS
socket design seminars to be held this fall on September 7-8, 10-11 and
November 12-13, we had to add a fourth seminar for April 1-2, 2005. The
April course only has a few spots left open, so we have added a 5th seminar
for March 29-30, 2005. We have had over 130 practitioners expressing
interest in this outstanding, innovative socket design and fully expect this
additional seminar to fill up as well, so please call today and reserve your
spot.


If you would like more information about the course,
please contact me via email at <Email Address Redacted>
<mailto:<Email Address Redacted>>
or call Kelly Weidman at 800-214-6742.

Well, it happened again! Thanks to an overwhelming response to the OPGA MAS
socket design seminars to be held this fall on September 7-8, 10-11 and
November 12-13, we had to add a fourth seminar for April 1-2, 2005. The
April course only has a few spots left open, so we have added a 5th seminar
for March 29-30, 2005. We have had over 130 practitioners expressing
interest in this outstanding, innovative socket design and fully expect this
additional seminar to fill up as well, so please call today and reserve your
spot.

Recently, OPGA has teamed with Marlo Ortiz, creator of the Marlo Ortiz
Anatomical Socket (M.A.S.*) in order to make available this outstanding new
socket design to the O&P profession on a wide-scale basis. An initial
course was hosted in January by OPGA and O&P1 in Waterloo, IA. The course
was an overwhelming success and all attendees agreed that the O&P profession
and many transfemoral patients would benefit greatly from this new socket
design. OPGA will be offering a two-day course to be held at O&P1 in
Waterloo, IA and will be taught by Marlo Ortiz and John Michael so that all
independent practitioners and their patients might benefit from this new
design.

Two tiers of learning will be offered at the course:

        * Tier I - Hands-On - Full two-day seminar, which includes
patient evaluation with casting, modifications, and two test sockets.
Attendee must provide own patient model and his/her travel arrangements
        * Tier II - Observation - Full two-day seminar which
includes all course materials, observation of patient evaluation, but no
hands-on participation

For those of you not familiar with the M.A.S.* socket, it is a revolutionary
new socket design created and patented by Marlo Ortiz from Guadalajara, MX.
Marlo and his socket design were featured at the AAOP National Meeting in
the Thranhardt lecture series and generated significant interest amongst the
attending practioners. To read more about the socket design, read a recent
article in the O&P Edge at
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ortiz>.

If you would like more information about the course, please contact me via
email at <Email Address Redacted> or call Kelly Weidman at 800-214-6742.

Jim Andreassen
President, OPGA
Phone: 800-214-6742
Fax: 888-449-0610
email: <Email Address Redacted>