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Dec 26, 2024
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ORTE 2000 - Leatherwork for Lower-Limb Orthoses Credits: 4 Hours/Week: Lecture 1 Lab 6 Course Description: This course concentrates on fabricating leather cuffs and closures, corrective T-straps, and knee control pads, which are all essential parts of the lower limb orthosis to hold the limb in a secure and functional position. MnTC Goals None
Prerequisite(s): Instructor consent Corequisite(s): None Recommendation: None
Major Content
- Leather cuffs for knee-ankle-foot orthoses
- leather cuffs and closure and pattern making
- fabricating leather cuffs and closures
- attaching leather cuffs to knee-ankle-foot orthoses
- Corrective straps for orthopedic shoes with stirrups
- identifying size requirements
- fabricating corrective straps
- attaching corrective straps to shoes
- Leather cuffs for ankle-foot orthoses
- leather cuffs and closures
- pattern making
- fabricating leather cuffs and closures
- attaching leather cuffs to ankle-foot orthoses
- Knee control pads
- types of knee control pads
- pattern making
- fabricating knee control pads
Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to:
- fabricate and attach leather cuffs of various types for the knee-ankle-foot orthosis.
- fabricate and attach corrective straps for an orthopedic shoe with a stirrup.
- fabricate and attach leather cuffs to the ankle-foot orthosis.
- fabricate knee control pads.
Competency 1 (1-6) None Competency 2 (7-10) None Courses and Registration
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