PT Involvement
Beery, Leo
Description
Collection
Title:
PT Involvement
Creator:
Beery, Leo
Date:
12/8/2005
Text:
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.
I am a second generation Prosthetist and I am very proud of and
grateful for the skills that were passed on to me, I am also proud of
the skills that I have developed over the past twenty years. One of the
skills that I have developed is how to ignore most input from PT's,
their experience can no where match mine or the vast majority of my
peers. This profession is very difficult to teach (believe me I know)
and it takes years to master. For any reasonable person to believe that
someone who has never done this can best decide from the outset what is
best for a particular patient is not reasonable.
An old Prosthetist once warned me to be careful or we would become
peanut vendors, well the recent discussions have made me think of
those words. I certainly do not have the answer to the question of how
do we keep our profession safe from encroachment. Greed and arrogance
seem to be the driving force behind this issue. This is just one little
teachers opinion. I believe deeply in the things each of us do every
day. I have a few patients in my stable, you know the one that you see
almost weekly and is never happy, that I would love to dump off on some
unsuspecting Physical Therapist! (just kidding all my patients are
perfect)
JUST VENTING!!
Leo D. Beery CP, LP (apparently not that it matters)
P.S. Would you like salted or unsalted peanuts?
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.
I am a second generation Prosthetist and I am very proud of and
grateful for the skills that were passed on to me, I am also proud of
the skills that I have developed over the past twenty years. One of the
skills that I have developed is how to ignore most input from PT's,
their experience can no where match mine or the vast majority of my
peers. This profession is very difficult to teach (believe me I know)
and it takes years to master. For any reasonable person to believe that
someone who has never done this can best decide from the outset what is
best for a particular patient is not reasonable.
An old Prosthetist once warned me to be careful or we would become
peanut vendors, well the recent discussions have made me think of
those words. I certainly do not have the answer to the question of how
do we keep our profession safe from encroachment. Greed and arrogance
seem to be the driving force behind this issue. This is just one little
teachers opinion. I believe deeply in the things each of us do every
day. I have a few patients in my stable, you know the one that you see
almost weekly and is never happy, that I would love to dump off on some
unsuspecting Physical Therapist! (just kidding all my patients are
perfect)
JUST VENTING!!
Leo D. Beery CP, LP (apparently not that it matters)
P.S. Would you like salted or unsalted peanuts?
Citation
Beery, Leo, “PT Involvement,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 4, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/225893.
