ASS TECH - intro Flashcards
Global standards for prosthetics and orthotics:
- people-centered
- responsive to every individual’s personal and environmental needs
Any external product that has the primary purpose of maintaining or improving an individual’s functioning independence and thereby promote their well-being.
Assistive products
Organized knowledge and skills related to assistive products, including systems and services. A subset of health technology.
Assistive Technology
Umbrella term for impairments, limitations of activity, and restrictions on participation resulting from the interaction between people with health conditions and the environmental barriers they encounter
Disability
An umbrella term for disease, disorder, injury, or trauma. It can also include circumstances such as pregnancy, aging stress, congenital anomaly, or genetic predisposition.
Health Conditions
Loss or abnormality in a body structure or physiological function
Impairment
Rehabilitation provided by two or more different types of rehabilitation professionals
Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Team
Techniques to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life by enhancing their ability to engage in the occupations they want, need or expected to do or by modifying the occupation or the environment to support their occupational engagement.
Occupational Therapy
Externally device used to modify the structural and functional characteristics of neuromuscular and skeletal systems
Orthosis, orthotic device, or product.
Science and art of treating people by the use of orthosis
Orthotics
A person who has completed an approved course of education and training, and is authorized to design, measure, and fit orthoses
Orthotist
An approach to care in which the perspectives of individuals, caregivers, families and communities
are consciously adopted so that people are participants in and beneficiaries of trusted health systems that respond to their needs and preferences in humane, holistic ways.
People-centered care
People who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments, which, when they meet various barriers, may hinder their full, effective participation in society on an equal basis with others
People with disability
Services to individuals and populations to develop, maintain and restore maximum movement and functional ability throughout the lifespan.
Physiotherapy / Physical Therapy
Externally applied device used to replace wholly or partly an absent or deficient limb segment
Prosthesis, prosthetic device or product
Science and art of treating people by the use of prostheses
Prosthetics
A person who has completed an approved course of education and training and is authorized to design, measure, and fit prostheses
Prosthetist
A set of interventions designed to optimize functioning and reduce disability in individuals with health conditions in interaction with their environment.
Rehabilitation
Defined as “ensuring that all people can use the promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health service they need, of sufficient quality to be effective, while also ensuring that the use of these services does not expose the user to financial hardship.”
Universal Health Coverage
Orthotist are responsible for:
- evaluating the pt’s functional and cosmetic needs
- designing the orthosis, selecting appropriate components
- educates the pt and the care providers on appropriate use of the orthosis
The word “ortho” means
Straight
A device under orthosis that corrects irregularities
Brace
A device usually used after surgery and does not allowing movement
Splint
Give at least 5 indications for orthosis:
- to limit motion
- to relieve pain
- to provide rest
- to reduce mm tone
- protect against injury
- to reduce axial loading
