Prosthetic workshop

Rinko Orthopedic Appliances is a small shop that manufacturers prosthetics. Using plaster molds, they manufacture mainly artificial legs using plastics, composites, and metals. Fig. 5.5 shows the prosthetic workshop. 

Leading U.S. prosthetics manufacturers, such as Becker Orthopedic and the Hanger Orthopedic Group, sell primarily to special laboratories and workshops. Such workshops are staffed by trained and certified prosthetists and orthotists. Physicians contact these workshops to place an order or fill a prescription for a prosthesis to be fitted on a patient. 

Data was collected from the orthopedic department. Rehabilitation Medicine department and prosthetics and orthotics workshop of University Malaya Medical Centre. All the data was collected from the patient s admission registration book in the orthopedic ward and rehabilitation department. 

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