Examples of orthosis

• Sometimes an orthosis is required to keep the foot up and from dragging the ground.

• A static wrist-hand orthosis is often helpful in maintaining these joints in a functional position.

• You may be prescribed with customized shoe inserts called orthoses to help alleviate the pain.

• Any future evaluative studies will need to consider the extent to which the particular characteristics of the orthosis are relevant.

• Due to problems with follow-up and reliability of stimulators they did not feel that it was an effective long-term orthosis but were optimistic about the therapeutic benefits.

• It then trains the best of those technicians to become lecturers in prosthesis and orthosis.

• Iatrogenic injury is also known to occur, with the abducens nerve being the most commonly injured cranial nerve in halo orthosis placement.

• A few examples are: powered leg prosthesis for neuromuscularly impaired, ankle-foot orthosis, biological realistic leg prosthesis and forearm prosthesis.