FW: [OANDP-L] PT Involvement
Tony Barr
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Title:
FW: [OANDP-L] PT Involvement
Creator:
Tony Barr
Date:
12/8/2005
Text:
Pitifull and waste of time of resurrecting and encouraging the O&P
profession to launch a new alphabet soup wars againt state licensed PTs
!!!
They are not the enemy but are used to distract the O&P professionals to
unite and face the real issues of ssupporting and mandating meaningfull
qualifications of providers.
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Tony Barr
-----Original Message-----
From: Orthotics and Prosthetics List [mailto:<Email Address Redacted>] On
Behalf Of Beery, Leo
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:43 AM
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Subject: [OANDP-L] PT Involvement
I have spent the last five years developing curriculum for O&P Assistants.
I have spent hours making Power point presentations, developing handouts and
obtaining all the information I can get my hands on concerning Patient
Evaluation Techniques, Pathology, Gait Analysis, Trouble shooting, and
component selection criteria as it relates to each individual patients
needs. I have developed test questions that challenge the student's ability
to evaluate all aspect of the design, construction and successful delivery,
maintenance and long term care of the prosthesis. It certainly would have
saved me a great deal of time if I had known that all I had to teach was how
to laminate and how to properly take orders from a PT.
Greeting Carol,
There is the possibility that PT certification 40 years ago included more
hours of training in prosthetics than is currently being taught. I
personally have taught PTs at the university level about prosthetics and
functional levels. This is some of the only training that PT students get
about prosthetics today. They are unaware of prosthetic sock management,
measuring and casting, bio and pathomechanics, fabrication, current
componentry or fit. If the PTs are not trained to deliver such services and
certified as such by a CAAHEP accredited program in prosthetics, then PTs
have no business stating that they are a qualified to deliver these
services. I believe that this whole argument is about money, period, not
turf, not qualifications, not anything but money, and the ability to blow
smoke up some senators skirt through PAQs in order to reach into another
disciplines pocket and steal more money legally. Who suffers, the PT, the CP
or CPO, or maybe, the patient?
Craig R. Smith BS, CPO, MEd.
profession to launch a new alphabet soup wars againt state licensed PTs
!!!
They are not the enemy but are used to distract the O&P professionals to
unite and face the real issues of ssupporting and mandating meaningfull
qualifications of providers.
Read <URL Redacted>
Tony Barr
-----Original Message-----
From: Orthotics and Prosthetics List [mailto:<Email Address Redacted>] On
Behalf Of Beery, Leo
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:43 AM
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Subject: [OANDP-L] PT Involvement
I have spent the last five years developing curriculum for O&P Assistants.
I have spent hours making Power point presentations, developing handouts and
obtaining all the information I can get my hands on concerning Patient
Evaluation Techniques, Pathology, Gait Analysis, Trouble shooting, and
component selection criteria as it relates to each individual patients
needs. I have developed test questions that challenge the student's ability
to evaluate all aspect of the design, construction and successful delivery,
maintenance and long term care of the prosthesis. It certainly would have
saved me a great deal of time if I had known that all I had to teach was how
to laminate and how to properly take orders from a PT.
Greeting Carol,
There is the possibility that PT certification 40 years ago included more
hours of training in prosthetics than is currently being taught. I
personally have taught PTs at the university level about prosthetics and
functional levels. This is some of the only training that PT students get
about prosthetics today. They are unaware of prosthetic sock management,
measuring and casting, bio and pathomechanics, fabrication, current
componentry or fit. If the PTs are not trained to deliver such services and
certified as such by a CAAHEP accredited program in prosthetics, then PTs
have no business stating that they are a qualified to deliver these
services. I believe that this whole argument is about money, period, not
turf, not qualifications, not anything but money, and the ability to blow
smoke up some senators skirt through PAQs in order to reach into another
disciplines pocket and steal more money legally. Who suffers, the PT, the CP
or CPO, or maybe, the patient?
Craig R. Smith BS, CPO, MEd.
Citation
Tony Barr, “FW: [OANDP-L] PT Involvement,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 4, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/225835.
