Re: Qualifications
Joe Carideo
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Title:
Re: Qualifications
Creator:
Joe Carideo
Date:
12/11/2005
Text:
Sorry Craig,
I was there 40 years ago and there was not more prosthetics in PT training.
Back then it was called a Familiarization course. It was approximately 1-2
hours long and consisted of primarily identifying component parts. OT's did
upper extremities, PT's did lower extremities. I too had the opportunity to
teach prosthetics to Physical Therapy students, most recently at the
doctoral level at Hampton University. Not much more instruction than they
got 40 years ago, 4 years ago or 4 days ago! Just fancier components.
PT's are good people, know their stuff inside and out, do good work,
sometimes great, but they aren't prosthetists and orthotists. Don't get all
bent out of shape guys, and ladies, they aren't there to take your jobs away
from you. They can't! In most cases they don't want to either, it doesn't
pay enough!
Just my opinion
Joe Carideo, CP(E)
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Orthotics and Prosthetics List [mailto:<Email Address Redacted>] On
Behalf Of Craig Smith
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:38 AM
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Subject: [OANDP-L] Qualigications
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.
Craig R. Smith BS, CPO, M.Ed.
Program Coordinator
Orthotic/Prosthetic Technology Program
Baker College of Flint
Health Sciences
1050 W. Bristol Rd.
Flint, Mi. 48507-5508
(810) 766-4194
FAX (810) 766-2055
I was there 40 years ago and there was not more prosthetics in PT training.
Back then it was called a Familiarization course. It was approximately 1-2
hours long and consisted of primarily identifying component parts. OT's did
upper extremities, PT's did lower extremities. I too had the opportunity to
teach prosthetics to Physical Therapy students, most recently at the
doctoral level at Hampton University. Not much more instruction than they
got 40 years ago, 4 years ago or 4 days ago! Just fancier components.
PT's are good people, know their stuff inside and out, do good work,
sometimes great, but they aren't prosthetists and orthotists. Don't get all
bent out of shape guys, and ladies, they aren't there to take your jobs away
from you. They can't! In most cases they don't want to either, it doesn't
pay enough!
Just my opinion
Joe Carideo, CP(E)
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Orthotics and Prosthetics List [mailto:<Email Address Redacted>] On
Behalf Of Craig Smith
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:38 AM
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Subject: [OANDP-L] Qualigications
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.
Craig R. Smith BS, CPO, M.Ed.
Program Coordinator
Orthotic/Prosthetic Technology Program
Baker College of Flint
Health Sciences
1050 W. Bristol Rd.
Flint, Mi. 48507-5508
(810) 766-4194
FAX (810) 766-2055
Citation
Joe Carideo, “Re: Qualifications,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 5, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/225905.
