Artificial Limbs: A Review of Current Developments

Artificial Limbs: A Review of Current Developments

Charles King

1/1/2007

I am please to introduce the first online posting of the classic periodical, Artificial Limbs: A Review of Current Developments. The foundation of modern prosthetics can be directly traced to the coordinated efforts the National Academy of Sciences under the various artificial limbs committees after the Second World War. America, at its height of post war efficiency and engineering acumen, set about to solve the burgeoning problem of amputees swelling an infrastructure of prosthetic delivery that was outmoded, outdated and unprepared. Artificial Limbs: A Review of Current Developments was an industry update of these research efforts and was published thirty-one times, spanning the years 1954 to 1972. I am pleased to share that all thirty one issues of Artificial Limbs: A Review of Current Developments have now been sponsored. They will be digitized and posted to the O&P library in the coming months.
   
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  This first issue is my personal thank you to all the early ABC certificates holders and those that created and participated in the research. I ask everyone to consider these 100 or so pages covering the Syme's amputation and prosthesis: where else might such clear and concise information be rapidly found? Do you agree with me that such vintage texts are relevant and should be digitally preserved and made electronically available? If you share an interest in such projects, please contact me.
   
  I took this project to Jon Shinn of the Digital Resource Foundation for the Orthotic and Prosthetic Community (DRFOP), which maintains the nascent O&P digital library. The DRFOP was picked because they have spent thankless hours formulating the technical embellishments that constitute the digital republishing represented by the posted April 1961 issue of Artificial Limbs. Jon Shinn, is the technical director of the DRFOP and he does a yeoman's work. He is keenly interested in preserving our prosthetic and orthotic heritage. He is apart of the group that recently brought us the Atlas of Limb Prosthetics as well as the same technical people who did such remarkable work with the JPO. Such technical sophistication and digital republishing costs money, mind you, this is not an appeal for money, which would violate the restrictions of the list serv, but a statement of fact. I ask people interested in this kind of work (there are plenty of documents still to republish) to
 contact me. Please take a look at the first posted let me know if you think this project was worth the effort. Again, all issues of Artificial Limbs have been sponsored, but please contact me if you wish to be considered for future digital republishing efforts.
   
   
  I would appreciate any and all feedback on this project.
   
  Best regards,
  Charles King, CP
  

  301.707.0982
www.neutralbalanceplatfrom.com
  



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