ATTENTION: Desperately need alignment fixtures
William Neumann
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Title:
ATTENTION: Desperately need alignment fixtures
Creator:
William Neumann
Date:
6/17/2014
Text:
Greetings from
Bangkok, List Serve:
I apologize
for delay in
Greetings from
Bangkok, List Serve:
I apologize
for delay in responding to you all last year after posting on List Serve, my
search for a Berkely Alignment Transfer Fixture to be used in our free clinic and
at which we evaluate between 200-300 low or no income patients per
month for O&P care and services. Over 200 trans-femoral, wood, knee/shin
set-ups were previously contributed to our clinic but we had no transfer or
gait alignment fixtures in order to insure best alignments. Many of you
responded in some way to my plea and I want to express my thanks and
appreciation for your various offers to provide us with a solution as well as
to let you know of recent progress in this regard.
The “good
news” is that we have recently, received two new and apparently, never
used, Berkely Transfer Fixtures that were donated by the P.O Component Clearing
House in Atlanta, through Rob Kristenberg who oversees this humanitarian effort
in addition to his P&O educational duties at Georgia Tech. University. Thanks again, Rob, for your efforts
The“bad
news” is that we do not have any trans-tibial or trans-femoral gait alignment
devices to compliment the transfer fixtures. Gait alignment in our extremely
busy clinic is currently accomplished with a single Staros-Gardner coupling and
transfer with band saw, sanders, observation and guess-work, all of which is certainly
non-measurable, severely lacking in accuracy and leaves us with abraded and bleeding thumbs. I am now searching for two
(or more) each of the Hosmer/Berkley trans-femoral and trans-tibial dynamic
gait alignment devices with aluminum lengthening tubes for exo-skeletal wood-foam
fabrications. As prosthetic services in USA are now almost exclusively, endo-skeletal
technique, it is my hope that someone out there may be willing to donate one or
more of their (working condition) old & unused dynamic alignment fixtures to aid our continuing
humanitarian efforts here in SE Asia. I guarantee that the fixtures will be put to immediate use and will be deeply appreciated by our many patients. I will be pleased to provide an official letter
of donation if needed. In addition, if
advised as to shipping weight, I believe I may be able to secure enough funding
to cover the cost of shipping or will personally cover it myself. If you have or know of anyone that still has
some of this equipment for donation, please let me know ASAP.
Thank you
sincerely for your consideration,
Bill
Wm. C. Neumann, CPO
Deputy Director, Educator/Lecturer
Sirindhorn School of Prosthetics & Orthotics
Mahidol University
Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital
Chao Phraya Building
14 Arun Amarin, Bangkoknoi
Bangkok, Thailand 10700
<Email Address Redacted>
Bangkok, List Serve:
I apologize
for delay in
Greetings from
Bangkok, List Serve:
I apologize
for delay in responding to you all last year after posting on List Serve, my
search for a Berkely Alignment Transfer Fixture to be used in our free clinic and
at which we evaluate between 200-300 low or no income patients per
month for O&P care and services. Over 200 trans-femoral, wood, knee/shin
set-ups were previously contributed to our clinic but we had no transfer or
gait alignment fixtures in order to insure best alignments. Many of you
responded in some way to my plea and I want to express my thanks and
appreciation for your various offers to provide us with a solution as well as
to let you know of recent progress in this regard.
The “good
news” is that we have recently, received two new and apparently, never
used, Berkely Transfer Fixtures that were donated by the P.O Component Clearing
House in Atlanta, through Rob Kristenberg who oversees this humanitarian effort
in addition to his P&O educational duties at Georgia Tech. University. Thanks again, Rob, for your efforts
The“bad
news” is that we do not have any trans-tibial or trans-femoral gait alignment
devices to compliment the transfer fixtures. Gait alignment in our extremely
busy clinic is currently accomplished with a single Staros-Gardner coupling and
transfer with band saw, sanders, observation and guess-work, all of which is certainly
non-measurable, severely lacking in accuracy and leaves us with abraded and bleeding thumbs. I am now searching for two
(or more) each of the Hosmer/Berkley trans-femoral and trans-tibial dynamic
gait alignment devices with aluminum lengthening tubes for exo-skeletal wood-foam
fabrications. As prosthetic services in USA are now almost exclusively, endo-skeletal
technique, it is my hope that someone out there may be willing to donate one or
more of their (working condition) old & unused dynamic alignment fixtures to aid our continuing
humanitarian efforts here in SE Asia. I guarantee that the fixtures will be put to immediate use and will be deeply appreciated by our many patients. I will be pleased to provide an official letter
of donation if needed. In addition, if
advised as to shipping weight, I believe I may be able to secure enough funding
to cover the cost of shipping or will personally cover it myself. If you have or know of anyone that still has
some of this equipment for donation, please let me know ASAP.
Thank you
sincerely for your consideration,
Bill
Wm. C. Neumann, CPO
Deputy Director, Educator/Lecturer
Sirindhorn School of Prosthetics & Orthotics
Mahidol University
Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital
Chao Phraya Building
14 Arun Amarin, Bangkoknoi
Bangkok, Thailand 10700
<Email Address Redacted>
Citation
William Neumann, “ATTENTION: Desperately need alignment fixtures,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 25, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/236356.
